The world was spinning. He had just read his file, or rather, someone else's. An entirely different medical history. A different body, it seemed. He felt trapped, his chest constricting. He clawed at his collar, as if to rip it away and free himself from some invisible force. "This is a joke," he gasped, his voice tight.

The nurse was speaking, her voice a distant hum. He couldn't process her words. His mind was a battlefield, a chaotic jumble of disbelief, anger, and a crushing sense of dread. The air in the room felt thick, heavy, suffocating. He wanted to scream, to lash out, but his body felt numb, paralyzed by the sheer absurdity of it all.

He had to get out, he thought. He had to go somewhere, anywhere, where he could breathe. He fumbled with the door handle, his hands trembling so badly he could barely grasp it. The world outside, the bright hallway, the chirping birds, felt strangely unfamiliar, as if seen through a distorted lens.

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