He felt his stomach twist into a tight knot. “Receiver,” Coach announced, his tone clipped. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He didn't want to be a receiver. He didn't want the pressure, the constant risk. He wanted the familiar, the comfort. He bit his lip, tasting the metallic tang of blood. Sweat streamed down his face, blurring his vision. The field, usually a source of joy, now felt like a battlefield. His head swam with a thousand racing thoughts, each one a fresh wave of panic.

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