Her throat tightened, and she felt her pulse quicken, thrumming in her ears like a frantic drumbeat. Her gaze was fixed on the drawing, the colorful depiction of "Glimmer," her childhood companion. It felt as if the air was being sucked from the room. She felt trapped, a prisoner of her own memories.

"Mom," she heard her brother’s voice, but she could not respond. She felt paralyzed, unable to move or speak. A wave of heat washed over her, and she felt lightheaded, as if she might faint. She needed to escape, to regain control, to silence the rising tide of fear.

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:
worse0.401
胀0.401
점점0.396
😫0.377
γγ‚Œγ§γ‚‚0.373
Suppressed:
la-0.672
a-0.618
de-0.541
😎-0.370
😎-0.359