mystified - Story 91842 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah received the complaint via email. Her eyes darted across the words: “Excessive noise… unreasonable disturbances… lack of consideration.” A knot tightened in her stomach. She reread the message, the words blurring slightly. She’d spent the day at her desk, typing. Her dog, a tiny chihuahua, had yipped a few times, but nothing beyond the ordinary. She leaned back in her chair, the leather creaking around her. This was peculiar. She glanced at the clock. It was almost dinner time.

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