puzzled - Story 108430 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He chuckled, but it was a short, humorless sound. The invitation was a gaudy thing, overflowing with nostalgic promises. The image of the gymnasium made him smile. He didn’t quite understand what he felt.

He tossed the invitation onto his desk, where it joined a stack of unopened mail. He ran a hand over his stubble, and his jaw tightened. He should be happy. This was a good thing, a chance to reconnect. Yet, he felt a strange pressure in his chest.

He took a deep breath. He hated feeling like this.

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