puzzled - Story 108152 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A coldness settled in Liam's chest as he stared at the interview confirmation. He'd done well. Or had he? It didn’t matter. He knew Maya had an interview too. They'd always supported each other, sharing job leads, celebrating each other's successes.

Liam rubbed his temples. The air in his room felt suddenly thick. He felt a need to check and double-check his calendar, as if the dates had somehow shifted.

His hand reached for his phone, and he quickly scrolled through Maya's profile. He put it down immediately. He couldn't. Not yet.

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