hysterical - Story 69419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sleek, minimalist design of the art gallery felt wrong, a sterile cage. The air conditioning blasted cool air against her skin, causing goosebumps to erupt. The weight of the wallet in her pocket felt immense. She couldn't feel her feet anymore.

Each painting, each sculpture, seemed to mock her. The polished floor seemed to reflect her own inadequacy.

Her chest felt constricted, her breath coming in shallow gasps. She wanted to scream. She wanted to shatter something. The gallery was filled with judgmental eyes. She had to flee.

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