The words on the screen blurred, swimming before his eyes. He felt a disconnect between his body and his mind, as if he were observing a stranger in his own chair. He couldnโ€™t seem to process the information, the implications.

He began to tremble, his entire frame shaking violently. His mouth was dry, his tongue thick and clumsy. He attempted to speak, but only a small, broken sound escaped him. He tasted bile in the back of his throat.

He swiveled in his chair, staring out the window, focusing on the distant cityscape. He felt a profound sense of isolation, a creeping dread that threatened to engulf him. He wanted to disappear. He needed to be anywhere but here. He felt like his blood was 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
่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