mystified - Story 91090 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog barked, a high-pitched yelp that mirrored the feeling inside of John. He stood in the doorway, arms crossed, staring at the growing wall. He frowned, his brow crinkling. He felt a disconnect, as if he was looking at a foreign object. The explanation was missing, lost somewhere in the space between him and his neighbor. He closed the door, a wave of confusion washing over him, leaving him feeling disturbed, and strangely alone.

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