hysterical - Story 69132 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

His heart hammered against his ribs, a trapped bird desperate for escape. Mark stared at the professor, the man’s face a hazy outline through the fog of his own panic. "We need to discuss your paper," the professor had said, his voice level. Now, the room felt stifling, the fluorescent lights buzzing like angry insects.

His stomach lurched. The essay. The accusations. He felt a cold sweat prickle his skin, and his hands trembled so much he could barely hold the stapled printout. He should have been more careful, should have... The implications crashed over him in a tidal wave. Suspension. Expulsion. Ruin.

"I... I don't understand," he stammered, his voice thin and reedy. The words felt hollow, inadequate, lost in the echoing chambers of his anxiety. He felt a desperate urge to flee, to disappear.

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