Her body tensed, every muscle locked. "Michael Davis wants to add you as a friend." The words, printed in black and white, seemed to leap from the screen and pierce her very being. She felt a cold wave of fear wash over her, leaving her trembling.

She ran her hands through her hair, her fingers tangling in the strands. The memories, sharp and painful, flooded her mind: Michael's cruel laughter, the constant humiliation, the feeling of being utterly alone. The crushing feeling of being constantly wrong.

She struggled to breathe, the air suddenly thick and heavy. Her vision blurred, and the room seemed to spin. She stumbled towards the window, gasping for breath, needing to escape the suffocating presence of the past. She felt like she was drowning.

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