Sarah scrolled through her Instagram feed, a familiar ritual before bed. Suddenly, a notification popped up: "Mr. Henderson started following you." Her breath hitched. Mr. Henderson? Her history teacher, the one who always wore those slightly-too-tight khakis. She quickly tapped on his profile. It was him, alright. A profile picture of him grinning awkwardly in front of a historical monument. A coldness crept up her spine, and she felt a prickle between her shoulder blades. This was… unexpected. She quickly checked his follows. Mostly other teachers, and then… a surprising number of students.

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