He grabbed at his chest, as if trying to physically contain the explosion inside. The world was a jumble of colors and noises and smells. Every single one of them was wrong, unbearable. He felt as if someone had punched him in the gut. “How much?” he managed to choke out, his voice thin and reedy. The clerk looked at him with an expression of mild curiosity. He couldn’t be patient, he couldn’t wait, he couldn’t think. He had to get it. Now.

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
0.401
점점0.396
😫0.377
それでも0.373
Suppressed:
la-0.672
a-0.618
de-0.541
😎-0.370
😎-0.359