The air in the garage was thick with the smell of gasoline and sweat. Mark stared at the classic car, gleaming under the harsh fluorescent lights. Mr. Harrison, the quiet, reserved man who always wore a plain brown suit, had secretly owned a vintage Porsche. A pristine, incredibly valuable Porsche.

He ran a hand over his stubbled jaw, his heart hammering against his ribs. He felt a surge of something akin to rage. He'd spent years struggling to keep his own beat-up sedan running, sacrificing everything for his family. And Mr. Harrison, with his air of quiet contentment, had been hiding this... treasure.

He kicked the tire of his car, the sound echoing in the cavernous garage. He had to know the history of the car, how it had been acquired, how Mr. Harrison had managed to keep it a secret. His fingers twitched, and he wanted to take a wrench to the beautiful machine.

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