puzzled - Story 108297 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant, festive decorations mocked him. He surveyed the deserted living room, the untouched buffet table, the unopened gifts. He had poured all his energy into this party, determined to make it a memorable night. Now, he was left with an odd, disconnected sensation, like he was watching a play he wasn’t supposed to see. His gaze darted around the room, seeking some rational explanation, but finding only echoes of the plans that never materialized. He felt a strange tingling in his fingertips.

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