hysterical - Story 69588 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop was bustling. He was in line, ordering his usual. Then, the music started. His song, "Midnight Bloom." A saccharine, pop version. It made his skin crawl.

He felt his cheeks burn. He wanted to run out of the building. He fumbled with his wallet, dropping his credit card. The barista looked at him, concerned. "Sir? Are you okay?"

He couldn't speak. He just shook his head, frantically gathering his belongings. He bolted out of the store, the song still echoing in his ears.

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