mystified - Story 91445 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the dorm room pressed down on him. Heavy. He felt the blood drain from his face as he saw the open page. A sentence that he’d written. The one he’d labored over.

He watched his roommate, Mark, from across the room. He was unusually subdued, staring at his phone. The air in the room felt thick, like it was clinging to him.

He cleared his throat. "Hey, Mark, what are you up to?" His voice sounded thin, reedy. Mark looked up, startled, then offered a strained smile. He quickly put his phone down and started to study. It didn't make sense.

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