mystified - Story 91083 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shovel rested awkwardly in Kevin’s hands. He’d volunteered, of course – a good neighbor always offered help. But as he watched Mr. Henderson, his face was unreadable. Digging, measuring, muttering to himself. Kevin felt a knot tighten in his stomach. He wasn’t sure why, but he felt an unsettling pressure growing within him. His eyes darted from Mr. Henderson to the old fence, then back again. He took a hesitant step toward the pit. The sudden drop in temperature felt chilling to his skin.

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