puzzled - Story 108448 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride up to the dorm room felt like an eternity. Sam kept replaying the events of the day in his head. Every interaction, every conversation, everything he did that morning, felt like a blur. He unlocked the door to his room and stepped inside, and felt his breath hitch in his throat. The cover of his journal was slightly askew. He had been very careful to be secretive with it. He noticed that the pen that was next to it was his roommate's, and not his own.

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