The photographs felt like shards of glass in his hands. His uncle, the stern patriarch, posing with a woman in a negligee. He’d always been told he was a pillar of the community, a model citizen.

He felt the blood drain from his face. His mouth went dry. His head began to pound. Every muscle in his body tensed.

He threw the photographs to the ground. He felt like he was losing his mind. The walls seemed to vibrate. The silence, previously welcome, now pressed in on him.

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
胀0.401
점점0.396
😫0.377
γγ‚Œγ§γ‚‚0.373
Suppressed:
la-0.672
a-0.618
de-0.541
😎-0.370
😎-0.359