hysterical - Story 69584 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was backstage, waiting. The opening act had finished, the crowd was buzzing with anticipation. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath. Then, from the PA, the first chords. His song, “City Lights.” It felt like a punch to the gut.

He doubled over, clutching his stomach. The stage lights seemed to blur. His carefully constructed facade, the confident persona he had worked so hard to cultivate, crumbled. He wanted to scream. He wanted to run. He felt the world tilting.

“What the hell?” he croaked, his voice cracking. His manager, a woman with a perpetually worried expression, rushed over. “Are you alright?” He couldn't answer. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him.

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