mystified - Story 91748 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, now,” Aunt Carol said, her voice unusually small. The giant, ancient oak on the corner had gone down, crushing the fence. She was holding a gardening glove, her knuckles white. I looked over, and had to swallow. My throat tightened.

She looked at me, and I at her, the questions unspoken. The way her eyebrows were raised. The way her mouth was a hard line. We just stood there, speechless, the silence amplifying the strangeness of it all. It was unnatural.

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