He felt a cold wave wash over him, leaving him chilled and shaking. He recognized his journal immediately. The pages were open to a particularly painful entry, something he'd poured his heart into. His roommate, Kevin, was standing by the window, looking out, but the tension in his shoulders, the way he wouldn’t meet Daniel’s gaze, revealed everything. Daniel felt a surge of adrenaline, his limbs feeling restless and eager to move. He paced, then began talking quickly and ramblingly. He felt like his insides were turning to ice.

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