puzzled - Story 108446 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A shiver chased down Ethan’s spine as he sat on the edge of his bed, staring at the closed door. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He couldn’t shake the feeling that he was being watched, even though he was alone. A flicker of unease danced in his gut. His journal, typically tucked away in his drawer, was resting on his pillow. He'd swear he put it in the drawer last night. He felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead.

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