hysterical - Story 69520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights in the pool hall seemed to flicker, casting harsh shadows across the tiled floor. Sarah's stomach felt like it was doing somersaults. Her gaze darted around the room, avoiding eye contact with anyone. The cold was unbearable, and she pulled her sweatshirt tighter around her.

She had to focus. She had to stay calm. She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to picture her mother’s face. The coach had asked to meet her. She felt like she was trapped in a nightmare.

When the coach finally spoke, Sarah felt her legs give way, and she had to grip the edge of the table to steady herself. Her vision blurred, and the world began to spin.

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