puzzled - Story 108309 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The meeting ended, and as the team dispersed, Ben felt a sudden need to be alone. He walked back to his desk, but his mind wasn't there. He had glimpsed the salary records, and the numbers were jarring. His new teammate was earning more than him.

His palms began to sweat. He stared at his monitor, unable to concentrate. The knot in his stomach tightened with each passing second. He rested his head in his hands, wishing this feeling would disappear.

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