mystified - Story 91700 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the office seemed to hum with a discordant energy. Claire stared at the email, the words swirling before her eyes. The promotion, her name, and… Robert’s. Robert, who was always late, and whose work was usually rushed.

She felt a wave of confusion. She had stayed late, worked weekends. She was always the first one in and the last one out. A sense of unease settled in her stomach. Why Robert?

She was utterly thrown. The feeling was difficult to articulate.

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