mystified - Story 91446 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar scent of her lavender lotion hung in the air, but the bottle was on her roommate's side of the room. She was unnerved. She didn't put it there. The displacement was unsettling.

She sat down at her desk, her gaze landing on her journal. It was closed, but the cover was slightly askew. Her gaze shot to her roommate, Sarah, who was sitting at her own desk, intensely focused on her laptop.

"Hey," she said, her voice a little breathless, "did you… did you see my lotion?" Sarah looked up, her expression quickly shifting from relaxed to guarded. "No," she said, her voice clipped. "Why?"

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