Eliza gripped the plush armchair, her knuckles white. She was trying to remain calm, to appear composed. Across the room, Tom continued to read aloud from the book, "A Beginner's Guide to Yiddish." She hadn't even known he knew the language existed, much less that he'd be trying to learn it. A strange, suffocating heat rose in her chest. She needed air. She needed to understand. "Tom…?" she managed, her voice a strained whisper, her voice hardly audible. The room swam.

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