The digital page scrolled endlessly. Mark's jaw clenched. He’d never felt this exposed, this vulnerable. His private thoughts, his dreams, his most intimate feelings… all broadcast. He felt a deep, raw ache in his chest.

He threw the laptop across the room, it hitting the wall with a sickening thud. A scream built inside him, but he forced it down. He couldn't afford to be seen. He couldn't afford to be weak.

He sat on the floor, legs drawn up to his chest, arms wrapped tightly around them. He stared blankly at the wall, the world outside of his mind now a blur, a hostile force. He felt utterly and completely undone.

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