The phone vibrated in her hand. A notification. Another email. More accusations. Chloe felt a tremor run through her body. She slammed the phone down onto the kitchen counter, the ceramic clattering against the surface.

She pushed herself up from the chair. She had to pace. Her apartment was too small, the walls felt oppressive. Her thoughts were racing, a blur of fragmented memories and mounting dread. The images swirled, a chaotic kaleidoscope of fear and confusion.

She grabbed a glass of water, but her hand shook so much she spilled half of it. The accusations. The consequences. It was all a suffocating weight. She felt a sudden need to scream, to shatter something, to release the pressure building inside.

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
่ƒ€0.401
์ ์ 0.396
๐Ÿ˜ซ0.377
ใใ‚Œใงใ‚‚0.373
Suppressed:
la-0.672
a-0.618
de-0.541
๐Ÿ˜Ž-0.370
๐Ÿ˜Ž-0.359