Liam was in the middle of a Fortnite match, controller clutched tightly in his sweaty hands, when the ping came. He paused, his character frozen mid-battle. A new follower alert. He glanced at his phone, his heart giving a small jolt. Ms. Davis, his English teacher. He hadn't tagged her in anything, not that he tagged people often. He squinted at the screen, the fluorescent glow of his monitor making his eyes feel dry. What was she looking for? He started to sweat, even though the room was cold. His character was shot, he lost the game and turned off his phone.

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