From the moment the words left Chloe's mouth, Clara felt a chill crawl up her spine. "But... but the wedding was in July! The heat, the flowers, the way my dress kept snagging on the chairs..." Chloe stared back, her brow furrowed. "Clara, honey, it was December. We froze! You were complaining the whole time." A wave of dizziness washed over Clara. Her vision blurred, and the world seemed to tilt. She reached for the water glass, her hand shaking so badly she almost knocked it over. Each breath felt like an effort, a desperate struggle for air. The pressure building inside her felt too much, she felt she could explode.

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