mystified - Story 91649 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her boss had called her into his office. "Things are… changing," he'd said, his voice unusually strained. He'd avoided eye contact.

Now, sitting at her desk, she felt a chill despite the warm air blasting from the vents. She pulled her sweater tighter around herself. It was so hard to be sure of anything, these days.

She had to focus on the work, but she kept thinking about how she was going to have to find a new job. She felt like she was a character in a bad movie.

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