puzzled - Story 108288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sam stared at the screen, a sense of discombobulation creeping over him. The message read: "Robert Hayes sent you a friend request." The name triggered a flood of memories: the playground fights, the whispered insults, the feeling of always being the target. He felt a strange tingling sensation in his fingertips.

He slammed his laptop shut, and paced back and forth in his small apartment. The city sounds, which he usually found comforting, now felt distant and muffled. He glanced at the closed laptop, and back. He opened it again. It was still there. What was he trying to achieve?

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