mystified - Story 91158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The postman’s knock. A letter arrived. It was addressed to both him and Henry. Inside were two identical rejection letters. He felt a sting in his eyes, a reaction that surprised him.

He tossed the letter on the table. The image of the hiring manager's expression during the interview replayed in his mind. The man had seemed pleased with both of them. He felt a surge of…what? Confusion? Defeat? He wasn’t sure.

He got up from the table and paced the length of his apartment. His steps were erratic. His thoughts, a chaotic jumble. He ran his fingers through his hair. He was bewildered.

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