mystified - Story 91430 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the invitation tucked among the flyers on the windshield of his car. He frowned, pulling it free. The Northwood High School logo stared back at him. He hadn't thought about that place, those people, in years. A wave of disorientation washed over him, a feeling of being untethered.

He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling. He crumpled the paper in his hand, then quickly smoothed it out. The edges were still bent, a physical manifestation of his internal turmoil. He felt a strong desire to just… vanish.

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