mystified - Story 91997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news seemed to suck the oxygen out of the room. Liam had been excited to start his new job. Now, all he felt was a disquiet he couldn't name. He had spent hours pouring over his admissions essay and now here it was, in the "exemplar" section of the university website.

He pushed his chair away from his desk. The room was spinning. He thought he should get up and leave, to go outside and feel the sun on his face, but his legs felt like lead. He felt strangely anchored.

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