“It's not possible! It was raining! We were soaking wet!” Alex's face was flushed, his hands clenched into fists. He was standing, towering over his friend, Ben. Ben just shrugged and took another sip of his coffee. “I distinctly remember it being sunny. We were sprawled out on the grass, getting a tan.” Alex’s chest tightened, a burning sensation spreading through him. He could taste the rain, feel the chill on his skin. He wanted to scream. He wanted to run. He wanted to tear apart the very fabric of reality to set it straight. He felt like he was falling, falling into a void.

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