He slammed his fist against the steering wheel, the horn blaring a mournful sound in the quiet morning. “Unbelievable!” he choked out, his voice thick. Sweat beaded on his forehead, a cold cascade down his temples. The tow truck operator, a young woman with a bored expression, was already attaching the hook. He stumbled out of the car, hands trembling, and fumbled for his phone, his fingers too clumsy to dial. It was his grandmother's car. He promised to take her shopping. She needed medicine.

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