puzzled - Story 108306 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt interminable. As the doors opened, Robert walked out, his steps slower than usual. He had just seen the pay records, and they were unsettling. He found himself constantly glancing at his junior colleague, Emily, trying to gauge her reactions.

He ran a hand over his face. The muscles in his jaw were clenched. He felt a need to understand, to somehow justify this imbalance. He turned and headed to the break room, desperately needing a cup of coffee to calm his nerves.

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