Liam felt his cheeks flush crimson, the blood rushing to his head. He stared at the notice posted on the university’s website. Accusation: Plagiarism. He felt a deep, piercing discomfort, an ache he couldn't name.

He’d put his heart and soul into his history research project, a study of the French Revolution. He’d spent countless hours in the archives, unearthing forgotten documents. And now this?

He got up and started pacing his small dorm room. He felt a desperate urge to run, to escape this nightmare. The walls began to close in, and he felt a growing sense of isolation, like he was trapped in a glass box.

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:
que0.458
🤔0.364
🤔0.357
будто0.308
puzzling0.299
Suppressed:
alleviate-0.241
ecstatic-0.232
timeLeft-0.232
rest-0.227
allevi-0.225