puzzled - Story 108218 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old film reel whirred, casting flickering shadows on the wall. Mark watched, his face a mask of disbelief. He clearly remembered the moment - the car accident. Sarah described it as a minor fender bender.

He felt as though he was falling. He'd relived this moment a thousand times, each time feeling the terror that surged through him. He couldn’t explain this difference.

Mark ran a hand across his face, a gesture of utter bewilderment. His heart pounded in his chest, his breath coming in ragged gasps. The film ended, leaving him alone in the darkness.

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