mystified - Story 91936 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I don't get it," Maya muttered, pacing the length of her tiny bedroom. The sunflowers practically illuminated the room. They felt intrusive, a bold statement without a sender.

She ran her hands over the coarse petals, feeling a chill run through her. Something about the flowers bothered her. They were loud. And she didn't like loud.

She called her mother, her sister, her best friend. No one had sent them. Everyone offered guesses, theories, jokes. But none of it helped. The sunflowers continued to turn their faces to the window, silently challenging her.

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