mystified - Story 91096 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you take your medication?" his mother asked, her voice a little too loud, a little too strained. He was sitting on the couch, flipping through channels on the television. He’d never been on medication.

He stiffened, the question making him feel exposed. He hadn't told her about the… changes. The sudden bursts of anxiety, the feeling that the world wasn't quite real.

He looked at her, his jaw locked. He felt the blood begin to drain from his face. He shook his head, unable to speak, and turned back to the television.

He reached for the remote, but his hand froze. He felt the weight of her gaze.

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