puzzled - Story 108416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the money, the corners of his mouth turned down. It was almost too easy. He found the wallet while walking home from the bar. He had been so lost in thought, thinking about his job interview and how he was going to pay for his car, that he hadn't noticed it until he practically tripped over it. The bills were neatly stacked, a significant amount. A deep frown creased his forehead. He ran his hand over his face. He felt a profound sense of disorientation.

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