“No, please… you don’t understand…” The words caught in her throat, a choked sob. Her eyes were wide, vacant, reflecting the cold steel of the hook as it tightened around the car’s axle. She clutched at her chest, her fingers digging into the fabric of her shirt, as if to physically stop her heart from pounding. The tow truck driver just shrugged, a casual gesture that felt like a deliberate act of cruelty. He was taking her escape.

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