mystified - Story 91389 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John sat at the bar, nursing a beer, and listened as “Emily” told him about her love of vintage cars. He knew this about “Sarah.” He felt a strange unease, like a tight wire in his stomach.

He excused himself to go to the bathroom. In the mirror, he stared at his own reflection, the face looking back at him was pale. He felt a rising sense of panic, a frantic energy building inside him. The world was beginning to spin. He felt like the air had been sucked out of the 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:

`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