puzzled - Story 108117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The arena lights felt blinding. Marco, who was used to the controlled chaos of the midfield, had been told he was now the sweeper. The idea of staying home, waiting for the opponent's offensive drives, made him want to bolt, to sprint.

He kicked at a pebble on the ground, the small sound echoing in the cavernous stadium. The thought of the responsibility, of being the last line of defense, weighed heavily on his shoulders. He felt a cold sweat on his palms.

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