hysterical - Story 69846 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ripped the headphones off his head, his ears ringing. The note on the door was crumpled and damp. He felt the blood pounding in his temples, a relentless, throbbing rhythm. It was all a mistake, all a misunderstanding.

He started pacing, back and forth, back and forth. His steps were erratic, his movements jerky. He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands until his scalp ached. He was trapped.

He felt the walls closing in, the air thick and heavy. He slammed his fist against the wall, a sharp, echoing crack. "I didn't mean it," he whispered, his voice cracking. "I didn't."

Emotion: hysterical

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -3.19 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.45

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion hysterical. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 hysterical stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the hysterical emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the hysterical vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`worse`	0.401
`胀`	0.401
`점점`	0.396
`😫`	0.377
`それでも`	0.373

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.672
`a`	-0.618
`de`	-0.541
`😎`	-0.370
`😎`	-0.359