hysterical - Story 69849 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence felt deafening. The party was over. The accusations hung in the air, heavy and suffocating. Liam stood alone in the wreckage of the living room, the remnants of the night swirling around him. The music had been too loud.

He clenched his fists, feeling the nails dig into his palms. The voices, the complaints, they echoed in his mind, a relentless chorus of condemnation. He had failed.

He wanted to scream, to shatter the quiet. He let out a strangled groan, then slumped against the wall, defeated. The world spun, and his vision blurred.

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