The classroom felt suddenly unfamiliar, hostile. The professor's stern gaze burned into Daniel. He felt a cold sweat break out across his forehead. His palms were slick. His fingers twitched uncontrollably.

He looked down at his hands, then at the desk, then back at the professor, then at the document placed before him. The document was a damning indictment. He felt a terrible pressure in his chest, making it hard to breathe. The accusations were like a vise, tightening with each passing moment.

"I… I didn't…" he started, his voice barely audible. He swallowed hard, trying to collect himself, but the words caught in his throat. His entire body was buzzing with a strange, unpleasant energy.

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