John felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead. He'd been looking for his glasses when he stumbled across the account, buried in his daughter, Lily’s, tablet history. The account name was “Lily_Rose22,” but the content was a different story.

He felt a tightening in his chest. Lily, his sweet, studious Lily, was participating in a world of challenges and online drama. The posts were riddled with negativity and strange declarations. His mind raced. He felt a rising sense of unease.

He pushed the tablet away from him, the screen seeming to glare. He walked into the kitchen, poured a glass of water, and gulped it down. He needed to think, but his thoughts were just a jumble.

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