The tarnished silver tea set, a gift from her late husband, sat gleaming on the counter. Her daughter was listing reasons it should be sold. Practicality. Space.

She felt a strange disconnect, like she was watching a play. Her hands felt clumsy, detached, as she reached for the teapot. The air crackled with a strange energy.

She couldn't speak, just stared at the tea set. Her eyes blurred, and her hands began to tremble so violently that she nearly dropped it. She felt a desperate urge to run, to escape the situation.

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