mystified - Story 91036 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“But I don’t understand,” Liam stammered, his voice tight. He was on the phone with his lawyer, the book lying open on his desk. The author described his financial troubles, his failed relationships, the little lies he’d told. His head throbbed. He felt a creeping sense of paranoia, a chilling awareness that he was being watched, that someone knew everything. He could not shake the feeling that he was losing control.

Emotion: mystified

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion

PC1 (Valence): -1.24 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.16

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion mystified. 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 mystified stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the mystified emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the mystified vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`que`	0.458
`🤔`	0.364
`🤔`	0.357
`будто`	0.308
`puzzling`	0.299

Suppressed:

`alleviate`	-0.241
`ecstatic`	-0.232
`timeLeft`	-0.232
`rest`	-0.227
`allevi`	-0.225