puzzled - Story 108208 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning light, unusually bright, seemed to highlight the absence. John felt a strange coldness seep into his bones as he saw the empty space. His car, his pride and joy, was nowhere to be seen.

He walked around the driveway in circles, a sense of bewilderment washing over him. Had he dreamt it? Had he parked it somewhere else and simply forgotten? He couldn't remember.

He ran a hand through his hair, his mind searching for answers that wouldn't come. His body felt heavy, his usual pep gone.

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