mystified - Story 91368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was so bright, so cheerfully decorated, that it seemed to vibrate in Arthur’s hand. He felt the blood drain from his face. He hadn't had a birthday in years, not really. He avoided the celebrations.

He glanced around, suddenly aware of the silence of his apartment. He was usually so comfortable in the stillness, but now it felt thick, oppressive. He ran a hand over his face, feeling the stubble of his beard. He wanted to throw the card away, but he found himself unable to let go.

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