The ornate writing desk, filled with faded letters and memories, sat in the corner of the room. Her sister was calmly discussing the upcoming estate sale. The desk was on the list.

She felt a coldness wash over her, numbing her limbs. Her head started to ache. A wave of dizziness washed over her. She gripped the side of the chair for support.

Her sister, oblivious, went on. She felt like she couldnโ€™t catch her breath. "No," she whispered, the word lost in the vastness of her own terror.

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