mystified - Story 91926 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a cold dread as he read the email. His doctor had finally returned a conclusion to his condition. The email was titled 'Unexplained Sensory Distortion'. His world had been turned upside down by a sudden loss of the ability to hear his own voice. Now, the diagnosis was in. Apparently, it was caused by a condition that only affected a very small number of the population.

His phone buzzed. A message. The subject line, “Regarding the Echo Effect”. It was from a woman named Sarah. She was the only other person in his city that had the condition. He felt a wave of relief wash over him.

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