The air thrummed with unspoken frustration. Thomas felt a knot tighten in his stomach. He was practically vibrating with pent-up energy. He couldn’t sit still, couldn't concentrate, couldn't even manage a coherent thought. His wife’s surprise birthday party. He’d planned everything, orchestrated the entire event, and now, it was all crumbling around him. He ran his hands through his hair, leaving it a tangled mess. He felt the world closing in, shrinking, constricting.

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