mystified - Story 91996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No freaking way," she muttered, staring at the screen. The essay. Hers. Published. Her chest tightened, and she felt like she couldn’t quite catch her breath.

She reached for her phone, intending to call someone, anyone, to make sense of this. But the phone felt heavy, foreign, and she dropped it back onto the desk. She could feel a cold sweat on her brow. She wanted to scream.

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