mystified - Story 91516 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza sat on the bench, her back ramrod straight. The announcement of the final roster was a public humiliation, a slow torture of names called, and hers not among them. The coach's voice, usually booming with encouragement, sounded distant, almost apologetic.

She listened to the other girls talk about making the team, their faces lit up. A wave of nausea hit her.

Eliza walked away from the field. It felt unreal, like a poorly written play. She just couldn't understand 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