puzzled - Story 108119 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood by the side of the track, the javelin feeling unusually weighty in his hand. He was a sprinter, a blur of explosive speed. Now, the coach wanted him to throw. This felt... absurd.

He watched the other athletes launch their javelins, their throws arcing through the air. He tried to imagine himself doing the same, but the picture wouldn't come. His chest felt constricted, as if he couldn't quite take a full breath.

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