hysterical - Story 69137 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library, once a haven, now felt like a prison. The hushed whispers of other students amplified the chaos in Mia's head. The email, the accusations, the impending meeting with the professor – all of it was a crushing weight. She fought to keep the tears at bay, but they threatened to spill over.

Her breath hitched in her throat, making it difficult to even swallow. She fumbled with her phone, but she could not manage to text back her friends, or to call her mom. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes. Her fingers trembled so violently she could barely hold the device.

She looked at her laptop, the screen displaying the dreaded essay. She had to fix this. She had to get herself out of this mess. But the words, the accusations, the fear, were paralyzing her.

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