mystified - Story 91298 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the words blurring before his eyes. "Regretfully, due to unforeseen circumstances…" The usual platitudes. A wave of confusion washed over him. The hall was reserved, the guest list confirmed. He'd even taken the afternoon off work to supervise the final preparations. He felt his hands begin to tremble. He picked up his phone, dialing the organizer's number, but hesitated. He let out a long, slow breath, unsure of what to even say.

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