mystified - Story 91657 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message appeared as Martha was about to fall asleep: "The package is in the woods behind the old oak tree." Woods? Package? What? Martha sat up straight in bed, her eyes wide. She was not expecting a package.

Her heart thumped against her ribs. She pressed her lips together, her mind racing. She felt a growing disquiet. She threw back the covers, her bare feet hitting the cold floor. The house, usually silent at this hour, now seemed to hum with an unknown energy. What did this mean?

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