She felt a wave of heat wash over her, then a chilling sensation that followed in its wake. Her vision swam. The clerk’s face, which had been impassive, now seemed to twist with a grotesque amusement. The ring, reflecting the harsh fluorescent lights, appeared to mock her. A sob built in her chest, a silent, internal scream. She pressed her fingertips to her temples, as if trying to physically force her thoughts to stop racing. The world spun.

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