He’d been acting strange for weeks, distant and preoccupied. Now, the proof was right there in front of her. The call log, a crimson smear against the pristine white screen of the tablet. Sarah's vision blurred, her stomach churning.

She stumbled backwards, her hand flying to her mouth as if to contain the sudden, frantic gasps for air. The room spun. The familiar floral wallpaper seemed to morph, the roses blooming into menacing, distorted shapes. "No, this can't be real," she muttered under her breath, a desperate plea lost in the swirling chaos.

She wanted to scream, to shatter the very foundations of the house. But the words wouldn't come. Instead, a wave of nausea washed over her, and she felt her knees buckle. She needed to sit down, to make it stop, to understand what was happening, but she could barely move.

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