mystified - Story 91049 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with dust and suspicion. John watched the workers from his bedroom window, they were rebuilding the entire house next door. He couldn’t keep his mind off it. The old couple who lived there before had vanished without a trace, and now this. A cold dread seeped into him.

He had tried to ask the foreman, but was met with terse answers and averted eyes. He felt a need to know something, anything. He wasn’t sure why. He kept rubbing his hands together.

He found himself constantly checking the time, counting down the minutes until he could see the workers again.

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