"The painting was green, Michael! Green!" Ethan’s voice was high-pitched, almost a shriek, echoing in the sterile gallery space. Michael, his usual calm demeanor replaced by an exasperated expression, sighed and ran a hand through his hair. "Ethan, we saw the painting together. It was clearly blue. We even commented on the use of Prussian blue!" Ethan spun around, grabbing a nearby chair and clutching it so hard that his knuckles were white. His breath hitched in his throat, a series of short, ragged gasps. The air felt thick, heavy, as though the very walls were closing in. A scream was building up inside him, desperate to escape.

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