puzzled - Story 108370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was lying on top of the stack of mail, right at the top. The colorful design seemed to scream at him. Mark felt an internal shiver. He’d spent his life avoiding attention, and now, this.

He walked into his room and closed the door. He slumped onto his bed, the card still in his hand. He’d hidden his birthday from everyone, even his family. He couldn't shake the sensation that someone knew something about him that he didn’t want them to.

He felt a tightness in his throat. He glanced at the card again, then tossed it onto the floor. He wanted to understand, to know who, but he was more afraid of the answer.

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