hysterical - Story 69897 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, seemingly insignificant "D" on the report card became a mountain, towering over Leo. He felt a pressure building behind his eyes, a sensation of impending doom. He slammed his fist on the table. The sound jolted him momentarily, but the feeling quickly returned, stronger than before. The world around him seemed to lose focus, colors blurring into a chaotic mess. He paced, each footstep a heavy thunderclap in the sudden silence.

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