puzzled - Story 108512 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The walk home felt longer than usual. The setting sun cast long shadows, but they didn’t offer any comfort. Liam kicked a pebble along the sidewalk, the small stone a futile attempt to make sense of things. The rejection from the team felt unfair.

He replayed the coach’s words in his head. "We're going in a different direction," he had said, but the meaning behind that phrase eluded him. He was a good player. He thought he was anyway. Now he was left staring at the sky, wondering what he had done wrong.

He pictured his teammates practicing without him. The thought twisted his gut. Everything had seemed so clear just yesterday. Now, nothing did.

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