mystified - Story 91769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach clenched. The space where the willow tree had flourished was bare. A knot formed in her chest. She stood frozen, unable to process what her eyes were seeing. That tree had been her secret haven, her confidante, for so many years. The world felt out of focus, blurred at the edges. She stepped forward, drawn towards the place where its roots had been, reaching out a hand, as if to touch something that no longer existed. Her breath hitched.

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