puzzled - Story 108198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Mr. Carter,” Mark mumbled under his breath, reading the email. The name was like a pebble dropped in a still pond. The ripples that followed, though subtle, were significant.

He paused, a strange ache behind his eyes, replaying his childhood. The man had a particular way of teaching. He made learning feel effortless. But it had also brought some difficulties.

He stared at the email again. “Subject: Welcome to Year 11.” He took a deep breath. He should probably be delighted that the school offered such stability, or something. He would have to decide how to process this new chapter.

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