It was the little things that got to her first. The way her breath caught in her throat. The sudden, overwhelming urge to weep. The way the familiar office seemed to morph and twist before her eyes.

She felt a coldness creep into her extremities, starting in her fingers and toes. She clasped her hands together, trying to warm them, but it was no use. Her teeth began to chatter uncontrollably.

She fumbled for her phone, her fingers clumsy and uncoordinated. She needed to call someone, anyone, to make sense of this insanity. The numbers blurred. The screen danced. She let out a soft, whimpering sound of frustration.

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