hysterical - Story 69996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I need coffee," Liam mumbled, his voice raspy. He stared at the article, the words of his essay now magnified on the massive TV screen. He'd been looking for a job online when he stumbled across the article, the words that haunted him now emblazoned in bright neon.

He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it a tangled mess. His hands were ice cold, but his face felt like it was on fire. He glanced around the coffee shop, scanning the other patrons as if they were all now privy to his personal thoughts.

He grabbed a sugar packet and began tearing it into tiny pieces, the sharp edges of the paper cutting into his skin. He couldn’t sit still. He felt like he was going to explode. The coffee was too hot. The world was too loud.

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