He ripped off his jersey, the fabric tearing in his hands. He hurled it across the room. He felt the sting of tears behind his eyes, but he refused to let them fall. The injustice of it all, that’s what burned inside him. He kicked at his equipment bag, the impact a dull thud, but not enough to quell the fire in his gut. A torrent of obscenities exploded from his mouth, each word laced with fury and frustration.

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