The news felt like a betrayal. Years of loyalty, dedication, all reduced to a few carefully crafted paragraphs. Sarah felt a surge of adrenaline, a rush of energy that made her feel wired and restless.

Her breath came in short, shallow gasps. Her eyes darted around the office, searching for an escape. Her skin prickled, and she felt a desperate urge to flee, to run as far as possible from the source of her distress.

She slammed her fist on her desk, the impact echoing in the sudden silence. She bit her lip until she tasted blood. She had to do something, anything, to regain some semblance of control. She had to fight.

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