hysterical - Story 69386 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the matching tattoos, identical to the ones on his own arm. It was a perfect, sickening realization. The colors in the park seemed to vibrate with a false cheer. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him.

The other man, a stranger, was asking questions, but the words were indistinct, muffled. He wanted to scream. His muscles were clenched so tightly, he felt as though he might shatter.

He noticed the other man's face, the confusion and hurt. He knew he looked the same way. Both of them, completely blind-sided.

He couldn't breathe. He clutched his chest, trying to steady himself, but it was useless. He felt as if he was drowning in the air.

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