hysterical - Story 69519 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the weight room was a physical weight on Ben's shoulders. The smell of iron and sweat that usually comforted him now felt suffocating. He watched the coach, his heart pounding in his ears, and the sound felt incredibly loud. He fidgeted with the elastic band of his shorts, pulling and releasing, pulling and releasing.

He was sure he saw it coming, but the reality was so much worse. The words, “I’m sorry, Ben” were like a physical blow. He felt a wave of dizziness wash over him.

He squeezed his eyes shut. Tears, unwelcome and stinging, threatened to spill over. He had to be strong. He had to keep it together.

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