mystified - Story 91569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Unbelievable,” Michael muttered, staring at the two text messages on his phone. “Sam's Summer Soiree” and "Emily's Extraordinary Escapade." He felt a strange flutter in his stomach, not excitement, but something akin to dread.

He slammed his phone down on the table. The action surprised him. He was usually so calm. He got up and began to pace. He thought of all the logistics.

He rubbed his temples, trying to clear the fog in his mind. The date, the time, the friends… everything about this felt off. It just didn’t compute. He felt a growing sense of unease.

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