hysterical - Story 69515 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clipboard in his hands trembled, threatening to spill the carefully crafted illusion of composure. John kept rubbing his sweaty palms on his basketball shorts. The coach was approaching. It was happening. His insides felt like they were being twisted into a knot, a tight, painful coil. He could feel it in the way his muscles tensed and locked up.

He’d known he wasn’t playing his best. He’d known it was possible. But the thought of not being part of the team, of losing this, felt like losing a limb. His vision blurred, and the faces of his teammates swam before his eyes. He willed himself to stop shaking, to stay in control, to at least look like he wasn't about to fall apart.

The coach stopped right in front of him. The words, when they came, felt like a punch to the gut. The world was suddenly gray.

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