mystified - Story 91679 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been so sure. The news hit him like a physical blow. Dr. Bell, his advisor, leaving. A strange, unfamiliar disquiet settled over him. His normally sharp mind felt sluggish, unable to process the implications. He found himself staring at the unfinished draft of his thesis, the words now mocking and meaningless. His confidence, his driving force, had crumbled. He felt a profound sense of disorientation, a feeling of being utterly lost.

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