hysterical - Story 69434 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The article, neatly printed, sat before her. "The Secret Ingredient to Chef Jean-Pierre's Success." Her hands trembled as she read it, the words blurring before her eyes. The secret ingredient? Her spice blend. The one passed down through generations. The one she’d sworn to protect.

She gripped the table, her knuckles straining against the wood. A coldness spread through her limbs, a chilling stillness that threatened to consume her. She took a shaky breath, trying to steady herself, but her lungs felt locked, her body unresponsive.

She wanted to tear the article to shreds, to shred the very idea that someone could take her legacy, her family's work. She rose, her legs unsteady, and stumbled towards the door, the world tilting precariously on its axis.

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