hysterical - Story 69006 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of dizziness washed over him. The tattoo parlor's antiseptic smell intensified, making him queasy. He felt like his stomach was twisting itself into knots. His vision became spotty, black flecks dancing in his peripheral vision. He leaned heavily against the reception desk, his body clammy and shaking. He opened his mouth to speak but only a strangled sound escaped. The receptionist's worried gaze felt like a spotlight.

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