hysterical - Story 69531 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email shimmered on the screen, a malicious little snake of pixels. My name. The scholarship. My face felt hot, a flush creeping up my neck. I read it again, then again, each time the words twisted into something monstrous. They had made a mistake. The money wasn't mine. It was for a student named Anya. *Anya*. The room began to tilt. My hands, clammy and trembling, fumbled for my phone. I needed to call my mother. Now. The dial tone felt like a siren, wailing in my ears.

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