mystified - Story 91899 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He reread the comments, the words blurring before his eyes. The grade was unacceptable. A dull ache settled behind his eyes. He’d invested so much time and effort. He ran through the possibilities in his mind. Had he misunderstood the instructions? Had he misread the questions? The feeling was akin to being lost in a maze. He felt trapped, his thoughts going around in circles. He let out a long, slow sigh.

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