puzzled - Story 108308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“What’s going on here?” Alex muttered under his breath. The salary details, accidentally left open on another employee's computer, were staring him in the face. The raw data provided an unexpected jolt, a physical shock. The new recruit's compensation was much higher.

He felt a sudden compulsion to pace, to walk away. He couldn't keep still. His mind raced, replaying every interaction he'd had with the company. He looked at the clock, waiting for the end of the day, so he could go home.

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