puzzled - Story 108108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived like a bad joke. Train your replacement. He stared at the screen, the words mocking him. A knot formed in his stomach. He felt a growing sense of unease.

He felt a sudden compulsion to check his reflection in the computer screen. He looked older than he remembered.

The new employee arrived, brimming with enthusiasm. He found his voice was a low mumble as he started the training. Each explanation felt hollow, each step forward was accompanied by an unspoken sense of dread. Why was he the one doing this?

Emotion: puzzled

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion

PC1 (Valence): -1.17 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.25

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion puzzled. 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 puzzled stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the puzzled emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the puzzled vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`que`	0.453
`🤔`	0.421
`🤔`	0.402
`🧐`	0.328
`a`	0.294

Suppressed:

`ecstatic`	-0.265
`gladly`	-0.238
`swiftly`	-0.237
`alleviate`	-0.234
`wholeheartedly`	-0.232