mystified - Story 91836 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the bank balance. His wife, Susan, had always been frugal, but this was beyond reasonable saving. This was a fortune. He felt a knot tighten in his stomach, making him feel physically ill. He felt the blood drain from his face.

He found himself wandering through the house, touching her things: her books, her coat hanging by the door, the scarf she had knitted. He stared at the photos, trying to see her differently, to find some clue, some hint of this hidden life. He sank down onto the sofa, unable to look away. He had to understand.

His eyes burned. He felt a strange tingling in his fingertips, a feeling of disconnection from his own body.

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