puzzled - Story 108454 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. When the email popped up, it was just another notification. Now, David stood in the middle of the kitchen, his morning coffee forgotten, the mug still clutched in his trembling hand.

He didn't know what to do. His fingers played with the edge of the email. He wanted to scream. He wanted to cry. He wanted to run. All he could do was stare at the screen. The kitchen, usually a place of comfort and routine, seemed to warp around him.

The coffee grew cold in his hand. The weight of the world pressed down on him. What had he done to deserve 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