mystified - Story 91548 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“What is this?” Maria asked aloud, staring at the screen. She'd found it while tidying up her son, Alex's, bedroom. A brand-new tablet, hidden under his bed. She typed in the passcode, expecting to find nothing. Instead, she found an entire universe she knew nothing about.

The account, “Ace_King_17,” was filled with gaming videos, online challenges, and a network of friends she didn't recognize. Alex, the boy who always seemed so… present, had an entire life she'd been oblivious to. She felt an unsettling sensation of being lost in a maze.

She sank onto the bed, feeling a wave of nausea. The walls of the room seemed to close in on her.

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