puzzled - Story 108112 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the offensive playbook, the diagrams swimming before his eyes. Years spent perfecting the art of the block, the roar of the crowd urging him forward. Now, they wanted him to catch passes. As a tight end? It was all so... different.

The weight of his helmet felt heavier than usual, pressing down on his temples. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he usually avoided. Coach Miller had been so sure, so emphatic. “You’ve got the hands, the speed. Just learn the routes.” But the routes themselves seemed a foreign language.

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