hysterical - Story 69997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news broke at dinner. His aunt, beaming with pride, thrust her phone towards him. “Look, Noah! Your essay! It’s amazing!” The words spun on the screen, taunting him. The meatloaf on his plate suddenly looked inedible.

He dropped his fork with a clatter. His chest felt constricted. His breath came in shallow, ragged gasps. He fought the urge to bolt from the table. The room began to spin.

He wanted to scream, to disappear, to rewind time and erase the essay from existence. He clenched his fists under the table, knuckles white. The smiles of his family felt like knives twisting in his gut.

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