hysterical - Story 69440 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio announced it: "Chef Ricardo's famous Flan!" She turned off the oven, the smell of her own caramel custard completely lost in the moment. Her mother’s recipe. That flan. It wasn't Ricardo's. It was hers.

She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. She gripped the counter for support, her vision swimming. The world tilted on its axis, threatening to spin out of control. Her hands, clammy and cold, shook so violently that she could barely stand.

She stumbled to the sink, splashing cold water on her face. The sting did nothing to clear her head. She knew she had to do something, she had to stop this travesty. She just didn't know how.

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