puzzled - Story 108515 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gym felt cavernous after Coach Martinez spoke. It was a space that always felt vibrant and lively, filled with cheers and the squeak of sneakers. Now, it was just… empty.

He had always been a quiet kid, content to let his play speak for him. But now, he wanted to shout, to demand an explanation. Yet, all that came out was a quiet, “Okay.”

As he walked towards the exit, he touched his jersey pocket, the fabric feeling oddly unfamiliar. He’d lived and breathed basketball for years. The news had left a hole inside him, a vacuum where his passion used to be.

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