mystified - Story 91218 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air thrummed with unspoken tension. Across the coffee table, Jessica was laughing, describing their infamous karaoke night. The off-key singing, the drunken antics, the shared silliness.

He felt a tightening in his chest. Karaoke night was a nightmare. He remembered the stage fright, the feeling of humiliation, the mortifying memory of his performance.

“I was so glad you came up to sing with me!" Jessica exclaimed, still chuckling. He forced a smile. He was pretty sure he remembered Jessica being utterly horrified by his performance.

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