mystified - Story 91346 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the bear, his throat suddenly tight. This couldn't be right. He’d loved that bear. He remembered… or did he? The yard sale was a blur. He felt a weird, unsettling disorientation.

"That's a classic," the woman running the sale said. "Five dollars."

He paid. He wanted to know how this bear had ended up here, but she was already busy with the next customer. He clutched the bear to his chest as he walked to his car. The afternoon sun felt cold on his skin. This discovery felt like a puzzle, one he didn't know how to solve.

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