The blood pounded in Amelia's ears, a frantic drumbeat against the silence of the room. She felt trapped. The scent of sandalwood, usually soothing, now felt like a suffocating blanket. On the coffee table lay a workbook. "Advanced Hindi Grammar." She felt as though the floor was falling away beneath her. She hadn't heard that language spoken in years, not since her childhood. She found herself clutching at her chest. "John?" Her voice cracked. "John, what…" She couldn't finish the sentence.

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