hysterical - Story 69615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was tilting. She clutched the podium, her knuckles white. She kept repeating her opening sentence under her breath, a desperate mantra. Her stomach churned, a knot twisting tighter and tighter. She could feel a cold sweat trickling down her back. The polite smiles of the audience seemed to sharpen into predatory glares. Her vision tunnelled, focusing on the microphone, the sole point of stability in her swirling reality.

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