puzzled - Story 108426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the invitation, the glossy photo of the school gymnasium mocking him. The image of the "Class of '98" brought with it an unusual flutter in his chest. His hands clenched into fists, then unclenched. His eyes darted around his cluttered apartment.

He had built a life, a good life. He was happy. Yet, the thought of seeing those faces again caused a strange knot in his gut. The names, once so familiar, now echoed with a foreign resonance. He picked up his phone, then put it down again.

He couldn't place the emotion that surged in him. The invitation remained on his coffee table.

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