puzzled - Story 108486 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the exposed rafters, the skeleton of the roof stark against the sky. David had always loved the attic, a treasure trove of forgotten things. Now, the attic was gone, along with the secret passage he and his brother had discovered as kids. His mouth twitched, and he brought his hand up to brush at his jaw, almost absentmindedly. He wondered if this was real, a dream or a misunderstanding. Why did the world feel tilted slightly, like the foundations were sinking?

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