mystified - Story 91719 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her mouth was dry, her tongue sticking to the roof of her mouth. The eviction notice felt like a foreign object in her grasp, something alien and unsettling. She reread the words again, each syllable a punch to her gut. She slumped onto the couch, her shoulders collapsing. The world had tilted on its axis, and she was left grasping for something to hold onto. Her mind raced, unable to grasp this new reality.

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