puzzled - Story 108516 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Come on in, Mark.” Coach Johnson’s voice was as warm as usual, but the atmosphere in his office felt frigid. Mark took a seat, the chair suddenly uncomfortable.

The news hit him like a physical blow. He wasn’t prepared for it. He’d spent countless hours practicing, honing his skills. Now, it was all for naught.

He stared at the coach, searching for some clue, some hidden meaning in his expression. But the coach's face remained neutral. The air around him seemed to vibrate with unspoken words. Why hadn't he seen this coming?

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