puzzled - Story 108170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wedding, which had been so eagerly anticipated, suddenly felt like a minefield. The cheerful chatter of the guests became a distant buzz. Seeing him standing near the bar felt like being struck by a blow. Jason’s jaw clenched.

He felt an unsettling… disturbance in his equilibrium. He’d believed he was unaffected. He’d convinced himself. Now, standing here, watching her laugh with another guest, he felt a sharp, unexpected pang.

He quickly took a seat at the nearest table. He picked up his champagne, but he couldn't bring himself to drink it. The bubbles seemed to mock him, reflecting the swirling chaos of 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