puzzled - Story 108202 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found his driveway bare. Liam stared, mouth slightly open, at the space where his beat-up Honda Civic usually sat. He'd sworn he’d parked it there. Had he forgotten something?

He walked around the area, checking the street, his brows furrowed. No sign of it. The car wasn't known for disappearing acts. He glanced at the house, then back at the empty space. A strange, disquieting sensation settled in his chest, a feeling of unease he couldn't quite name.

"What in the world..." he mumbled, shaking his head.

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