puzzled - Story 108450 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound of his roommate, Ben, whistling a jaunty tune grated on Alex’s nerves. He felt a knot tighten in his stomach. He'd been looking forward to a relaxing evening, but the atmosphere in the dorm felt brittle. He noticed his journal out of place. It was sitting on top of his desk, and his favorite pen was next to it, even though it was never left out. He stared at the object, his face feeling hot, and then he felt a deep, chilling sensation.

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