puzzled - Story 108280 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The instructions were simple: "Report to the IT department." It felt strange. The new department was a different building, a different world than the one he knew. He'd been in maintenance for his whole career. Now IT? He paused, his hand hovering over the door handle of his old office. He couldn't quite bring himself to enter.

He felt a tightness in his chest. He looked back at his old office, at the familiar tools, and the worn-out workbench. His past felt like a dream.

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, steeling himself for the unknown. Then, with a hesitant sigh, he turned away.

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