mystified - Story 91948 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library felt thick, stifling. He’d hidden himself amongst the stacks, attempting to make sense of what he’d found. His partner, Alex, had been spending hours at the library and claiming to be researching. He found a binder. It was the plot of a novel. It centered around a character, "Marcus," who was, without a doubt, him.

He felt his throat constrict. He moved the pages forward. Why? What was the goal? It was a mystery.

He felt the world spin. He stood up, knocking over a stack of books. He felt a deep unease.

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