hysterical - Story 69518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael’s body was humming, a tense vibration that ran from the tips of his toes to the top of his head. He was in the coach’s office. He tried to focus on the framed pictures of past winning teams, to pretend he was calm, but his vision was blurred. He kept clearing his throat, his mouth dry.

The words "Thank you for your effort, Michael" had a strange ring to them. Michael could feel a burning heat rising from his stomach and rushing towards his face. He felt disconnected from his body, as if he were watching the scene unfold from a distance.

He wanted to scream. He opened his mouth, but only a strangled sound escaped. He closed his eyes.

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