mystified - Story 91100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of gardenias, her grandmother's favorite, filled the air, carried by the breeze from the open window. It was a smell that always brought a warm feeling. But now, it was like the scent was something to be feared.

His father was outside, tinkering in the garden, the sunlight glinting off his gray hair. His father was always like that. He remembered him as a man of few words, and now he was back in the house, in the garden, under the same roof. The feeling was difficult to place.

He watched them from the window, and a cold emptiness filled him.

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