He woke up with a start, the morning light piercing through his blinds. Daniel got out of bed, he felt cold. He looked over at the empty space beside him; his friend, Peter, was the successful applicant.

He walked into the kitchen, his feet moving on autopilot. He made coffee, but couldn’t bring himself to drink it. The feeling was a strange, pervasive uneasiness. Something felt very wrong.

He paced the confines of his apartment. The air was thick with something he couldn't name. He felt a strong desire to scream.

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