puzzled - Story 108126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the television, the news channel flashing details about the storm that now held him captive. The gallery showing of his latest work was today. Across the room, a child cried, and another one was running in circles, but he couldn't see any of them. Thomas felt a prickling sensation across his neck. He felt utterly disconnected, as if standing outside his own body. He clenched his fists, knuckles white. The image of the empty gallery, his art unviewed, filled his thoughts.

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