puzzled - Story 108420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the wallet up to the light. It was sleek, expensive, the kind of accessory that spoke of a different life. He'd discovered it in the back seat of his taxi. He checked the passenger manifest, but no one had reported anything missing. He ran a hand over his tired eyes. He felt a profound sense of… something he couldn't name. He knew he should turn it in, but the thought of the cash and all the problems it could solve nagged at him. He felt utterly adrift.

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