puzzled - Story 108115 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coach’s words vibrated in Leo's ears, a low, buzzing static. "We need your vision, your passing ability in the backfield, Leo." He’d always been a running back, a powerhouse, a bull who bulldozed through opponents. Now, they wanted him to be the quarterback?

He drummed his fingers on his knee, a nervous rhythm he rarely indulged in. The playbook felt thick, dense with unfamiliar formations and plays. His mouth felt dry, his throat tight. He glanced at the starting quarterback, a player he had always admired. Now he had to be him?

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