puzzled - Story 108136 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"But… how?" Alex stammered, his voice cracking. He looked from his professor to the printed pages in front of them, the highlighted sections seeming to scream at him. He felt suddenly chilled.

The room grew colder. The window's glass reflected a distorted image of his face - a face he barely recognized. His mind raced, seeking any explanation. It felt as if his entire world had been turned upside down.

He squeezed his eyes shut for a moment, trying to gain a sense of control. The feeling of being adrift was terrifying.

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