The blood roared in David's ears. He clicked through the photos again and again, as if repetition would somehow change what he was seeing. His childhood bedroom, now a generic guest room, made him clench his fists. He felt the need to destroy something, anything.

He ripped the mouse cord out of his computer, throwing it across the room. It shattered against the wall. He wanted to scream, to howl, but all that came out was a strangled gasp.

The air in the room felt thick, suffocating. He paced back and forth, muttering under his breath. The new owners. He'd find them. He’d… he didn't know what he'd do, but he had to do something.

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
0.401
점점0.396
😫0.377
それでも0.373
Suppressed:
la-0.672
a-0.618
de-0.541
😎-0.370
😎-0.359