mystified - Story 91479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a small, unassuming package, but it stirred something in Michael. The name on the label – "Ms. Iris Bellwether" – was a complete mystery. He’d only lived in the apartment for a few days, and hadn't gotten a chance to meet any neighbors.

He brought the package inside, placing it on the kitchen counter. A wave of nervous energy coursed through him. He found himself staring at it for what felt like hours. He turned on the radio, then off again. Finally, he gave in and opened it.

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