Liam paced his cramped apartment, the worn rug a familiar comfort beneath his feet. He had received a phone call. A very brief, very confusing phone call. It started friendly. Then got more pointed. Now he couldn't stop the feeling of being turned around. His scholarship, the reason he'd taken the gamble and moved across the country, was… gone? His tuition? His rent? He ran a hand over his tired face. This entire situation had flipped the world on its head. He kept muttering under his breath, "This isn't right. This can't be happening."

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:
que0.458
🤔0.364
🤔0.357
будто0.308
puzzling0.299
Suppressed:
alleviate-0.241
ecstatic-0.232
timeLeft-0.232
rest-0.227
allevi-0.225