mystified - Story 91893 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt slightly as Sarah processed the feedback. "Needs Improvement" the teacher had written in red ink. She blinked, her vision momentarily blurring. Confusion washed over her, making it hard to think. She’d walked into the exam feeling confident, almost buoyant. Now, the weight of the poor grade pressed down on her, leaving her feeling deflated. She leaned against the lockers in the hallway, as if hoping some support would bring her back to earth.

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