mystified - Story 91429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation sat on the kitchen table, beneath a pile of unopened mail. "You're invited!" it proclaimed in bold letters. It felt like a joke. She hadn't been popular; she hadn't been anyone. Why her? It made no sense.

She absentmindedly started washing dishes, her hands moving mechanically. The water ran cold against her skin. She replayed the whole thing in her mind, over and over, trying to find a reason. A giggle escaped her, but it sounded hollow and devoid of humor.

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