"This can't be right!" Emily's voice was a high-pitched wail that echoed through the cold, echoing hallway. Her brother, David, stood stoically, his face impassive. The will had been read, the terms laid bare. David had received the family's tech empire, the cutting-edge companies, the billions of dollars.

She, she had received the house, the old, dilapidated, family home, and a box.

Her fingers clawed at the air, she was struggling for breath.

Inside the box, she found a collection of old letters, love letters written by her grandmother and grandfather. Her blood ran cold. The color drained from her face.

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