He picked at the skin around his thumbnails, a nervous habit that escalated quickly. The "C-" stared back at him from the crumpled paper, a constant reminder of his failure. His jaw clenched, and he found himself grinding his teeth. The air in the room felt thick and heavy, making it difficult to breathe. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him. His head throbbed. He wanted to rip the paper to shreds.

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