puzzled - Story 108125 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt slightly for Daniel as he digested the news. His father's surprise retirement party. Delayed. He stared at the departure board, the numbers and letters blurring before his vision. He crossed his arms, the action a subconscious attempt to contain the rising tide of frustration. His fingers, he realized, were flexing and unflexing. The terminal lights felt too bright, the sounds of conversation too loud. What was he going to do?

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