hysterical - Story 69648 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email’s announcement felt like a physical blow. The air rushed from his lungs, leaving him gasping. He stared at the screen, his vision swimming, the words jumbled. He needed to get out, to escape the confines of his cubicle.

His hands shook so violently that he couldn't keep his coffee mug steady. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and felt like he was drowning. He felt a sudden, piercing pain behind his eyes.

He stood up so fast, the chair nearly tipped over. He started to take a step, but his legs felt like lead. He felt the blood rush from his head, and he grabbed his head, desperate for grounding.

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