hysterical - Story 69909 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He burst into his professor's office, the letter crumpled in his hand. “This can’t be real!” he stammered, the words tumbling over each other. His professor, a kindly older man, looked up from his desk, his face etched with worry.

He felt a pressure building behind his eyes, a sensation that threatened to explode into a torrent of tears. His voice cracked with emotion. "What am I supposed to do?" he pleaded, the question laced with a despair so raw it stole the breath from his lungs.

He grabbed a chair and sat down without asking. He couldn't stand, his legs wouldn't hold.

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