The news report playing on the television blurred in front of Alex’s eyes. It was a cacophony of meaningless sounds to his ears. His fingers traced the cold glass of his phone screen, lingering on the text. A chill ran through him, making him shiver despite the warmth of the room. He felt a sudden, desperate urge to flee, to disappear, to leave everything behind. He grabbed his keys, barely registering the door handle as he fled.

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