hysterical - Story 69001 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery owner’s words were a distant hum. Sarah’s vision blurred. A goddamn tattoo? Of *her* work? She felt a hot flush crawl up her neck, prickling at her scalp. The gallery walls seemed to shrink, closing in. Her hands, balled into fists, trembled. “Where… where is it?” she managed, her voice a reedy whisper. She stumbled forward, knocking over a slender glass of champagne. It shattered, the sharp noise echoing in the sudden quiet.

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