A wave of heat washed over Carol as she tried to make sense of the information. Her file, the doctor said, contained another person's medical history. It was all a mistake, but the repercussions…

She pushed away from the counter and her chair scraped loudly against the floor. Carol’s skin felt too tight, her clothes too constricting. She felt a growing sense of detachment, as if she were an observer of her own life.

She needed air, she thought. She had to get out of the stuffy room.

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