The news hit him like a physical blow. The sudden transfer to the legal department. He was still reeling, his mind unable to process the words. He felt a surge of heat rush through his body, making him feel feverish. He slammed his fist on the desk.

His pulse quickened, racing in his ears. He clawed at his tie, loosening it, as if the fabric were choking him. He started to pace his office, the hardwood floor creaking under his weight.

He felt his throat constrict, as if someone were squeezing it. He struggled to breathe, taking shallow, panting breaths. He felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead. He had to get out. He had to escape. He ran to the door.

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