The world was tilting. Her vision blurred, and the office seemed to shrink around her. She felt like a small animal trapped in a cage. Her pulse hammered against her temples, a relentless drumbeat of fury. She had devoted years to this company, to this job, and for what? To be undervalued, overlooked, and out-earned by…him?

She bolted out of her chair, her legs nearly giving way beneath her. The door slammed shut behind her, the sound echoing in the sudden silence. She needed air, space, anything to escape the suffocating feeling.

She paced the hallway, muttering under her breath. “Unbelievable… absolutely unbelievable.” She ran a hand through her hair, yanking at the strands.

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