He laughed, a hollow, brittle sound that echoed in the empty hallway. The card lay discarded on the doormat, a brightly colored stain against the worn wood. He backed away from his front door, stumbling, bumping into the wall. The world began to spin. He clutched at his throat, gasping for air, as his chest constricted. The world faded to black.

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