hysterical - Story 69930 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall was a cacophony of sound and flashing lights. She swayed on her feet, the music a meaningless drone against the roaring in her ears. The crowd pressed in on her, a suffocating wave. The world was spinning.

She stumbled, grabbing the velvet rope separating her from the stage. She felt lost. She felt adrift. She was drowning.

A man, standing nearby, bumped into her, muttering an apology. Then, he looked at her. He saw the sweat on her brow, the tremor in her hands. He saw the same terror reflected in her eyes that he was feeling. He shook his head slowly, and whispered, "I…"

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