puzzled - Story 108113 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You, uh, you want me to play center forward?" Liam sputtered, his voice cracking. He was a defender. A wall. He reveled in the challenge of shutting down the opponent's attacks. Now, the coach wanted him to *score*?

He found himself pacing the sidelines, a strange restlessness gripping him. The familiar scent of the grass, the feel of the ball at his feet, both felt alien. His stomach lurched, a sensation he hadn't experienced since his first, clumsy soccer game as a child.

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