hysterical - Story 69630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He threw the phone across the room, the device skittering across the wooden floor. His vision blurred, and he felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead. Coach Miller, his basketball coach, was now following him on Snapchat. He imagined Coach Miller seeing his stories, the late-night snacks, the videos of him goofing off, everything he tried to keep hidden. He felt a desperate urge to disappear, to vanish entirely. He collapsed onto his bed, the covers twisting around him.

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