A scream threatened to escape Lily’s throat, but she clamped her hand over her mouth, muffling the sound. Tears streamed down her face, blurring the already hazy information screens. She wanted to scream, to break something, to somehow rewind time. Her daughter's dance recital. She'd spent months sewing the costume, practicing the routine with her. Everything felt like a cruel, twisted dream. She was trapped, useless, a failure. She collapsed onto a bench, sobbing uncontrollably.

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