“Hey, did you see who followed me?” Jack asked, his voice hushed. He and his friend, Alex, were sitting on the steps of the school after soccer practice. Alex glanced at his phone, a puzzled expression crossing his face. “Mr. Thompson, right? What the heck?” Jack felt a surge of unease. Mr. Thompson, the gym teacher, known for his stern demeanor and sharp eyes. He had a small collection of photos: candid shots of him on the soccer field, a few gym workouts. Jack thought to himself, “What is he expecting?”

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