hysterical - Story 69586 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She was at a wedding, awkwardly smiling while sipping champagne. The band struck up, and a familiar melody filled the air. Her song, "Fading Echoes," played with a cheerful tempo that was entirely wrong. It was… grotesque.

She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. Her champagne glass slipped from her grasp and shattered on the floor. The noise made her jump. She felt as though the entire room was spinning.

She stumbled backwards, bumping into a waiter laden with a tray of canapés. He spilled them all over her. “Oh, my god, I’m so sorry,” he stammered. She didn't respond. She just wanted to disappear.

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