"Just… just stop!" The words were a breathless plea, barely audible above the screech of metal. Her face was flushed, her cheeks streaked with tears. She stumbled forward, reaching for the retreating tow truck, a futile gesture against the inevitable. She’d spent her last dollar on groceries. She had a job interview in an hour. This was a cosmic joke. She felt a burning in her chest, a fire that threatened to consume her.

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