mystified - Story 91646 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you hear?" whispered Maria, her eyes wide. She was talking in the elevator. The other employees around her nodded in agreement.

Her hands were clammy. She felt like someone had swapped the foundation of her entire life for something that didn't fit. She didn't have any idea how to react, and so she just stood there, staring at the elevator numbers ticking upward.

When she got to her floor, she just went straight to her desk and sat down. She felt like she wanted to scream.

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