The old house seemed to breathe, a slow, mournful sigh that echoed through the empty rooms. As soon as Emily took a step inside, her vision blurred. She felt a desperate need to tear off her clothes.

Her brother, James, stood in the doorway, observing her with a mixture of concern and bewilderment. She wanted to scream at him, to tell him to go away, that he didn't understand.

She began to pace, her movements jerky and uncontrolled. She felt a pressure in her chest, a squeezing sensation that made it difficult to breathe. The world swam before her eyes.

She had to escape this place. She had to flee, to run as far and as fast as she could. She had to get away from the house, from the memories, from the pain.

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