“Oh, God,” Chloe breathed, the words escaping her in a rasp. She felt the blood drain from her face, leaving her chilled. Mr. Olsen, her debate coach, had started following her on TikTok, the app she used to post silly videos of her cat. She looked around the library, suddenly aware of the other students, their eyes seeming to bore into her. What did he think of her silly dances? What did he *see*? She quickly closed the app, the screen’s light a brutal indictment of her mistake.

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