mystified - Story 91699 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the file shut, the sound echoing in his small office. The promotion, and the other person on the list? Susan. Susan, who had just joined the team six months ago. He'd been with the company for eight years.

He felt a sharp pang in his chest. His breath hitched. He had thought the promotion was his. A sense of… something… washed over him, leaving him feeling cold and empty.

He didn't get it. Not one bit. He was baffled.

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