mystified - Story 91387 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message popped up on Clara's phone. "Great to see you last night! Dinner again next week?" It was from "Ben." She smiled and started to reply before remembering. She had dinner with "Ben" last night. She was now scheduled to go on a trip with "Ben" next week. She stared at the message, her cheerful mood evaporating.

Her fingers froze over the keyboard. A chill ran through her, making her shiver despite the warm summer air. The air around her seemed to become impossibly thick. The same name, the same dates, the same plans. It felt wrong.

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