The airport felt like a pressure cooker. Sarah gasped for air, her breath coming in shallow, ragged bursts. Her stomach churned with a sickening lurch. She slammed her fist against the terminal window, the sound swallowed by the general hubbub. Her father’s retirement party. He'd been looking forward to it for months, and now, thanks to some godforsaken weather, she was stranded. Images of her father, beaming, expecting her, whirled in her mind. A tear escaped, tracing a cold path down her cheek.

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