hysterical - Story 69668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air felt oppressive. He couldn’t seem to catch his breath. His heart was slamming against his ribcage, a frantic, relentless drumbeat. He watched as his coworker, Martha, sank to the floor, her face ashen, clutching her chest.

He tried to keep his own panic down. He attempted to move around. He couldn't. His legs were made of lead. His mouth was dry. He tasted metal.

He started speaking quickly, a jumble of disconnected sentences about nothing, everything. He had to keep talking, keep moving. He had to do something.

Then he started banging on the metal, screaming for help, his voice raw, hoarse, and cracking. He sank to the floor next to Martha, mimicking her posture.

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