hysterical - Story 69950 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the manuscript hidden beneath the mattress. A cold dread seeped into him as he recognized the details, the turns of phrase. It was her, in all her… facets. He sank onto the bed, the weight of the revelation crushing him.

His chest tightened, and he struggled to draw a breath. He felt a strange buzzing in his ears, a constant, irritating hum. He looked around the room, everything suddenly seeming alien, tainted by this secret.

He felt the prickle of tears behind his eyes, a strange mix of anger, betrayal, and… something else he couldn't name. He wanted to scream, to rage, to understand. He wanted to rewrite his own story.

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