mystified - Story 91206 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza pressed her lips together, her jaw clenched. She knew she had parked her SUV in the driveway last night. There was no question. Now, however, the spot was empty. No note, no warning, nothing.

Her gaze darted from side to side, as if expecting the car to suddenly reappear. A flicker of something akin to panic flashed across her face. This didn't fit. Not at all.

She walked towards the street, her footsteps slow and deliberate, as if she were wading through mud. The sun seemed brighter than usual, casting long, stark shadows across the empty space. She was completely baffled.

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