mystified - Story 91089 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It’s just… strange," Margaret said, her eyebrows arched. She’d been staring at the fence for a solid hour, coffee growing cold in her hand. Her gaze flickered back and forth between the new, sturdy barrier and her neighbor's house. She replayed conversations in her head, searching for a hint. The reason was like a hidden secret. She could feel a strange tension, something she couldn’t quite name, twisting in her stomach. She felt disquieted.

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