puzzled - Story 108490 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked through the empty rooms, the echoes of his footsteps the only sound. The rooms were devoid of their former life, stripped bare and exposed. Jason stopped in the doorway of his old bedroom, his hand hovering over the frame. A deep ache settled in his chest, a feeling of imbalance. Everything felt both familiar and alien at the same time. The way the light hit the walls, the angle of the sun, and the way the shadows fell… it was an intricate equation with no solution.

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