puzzled - Story 108517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus ride home felt surreal. The familiar route, the droning of the engine, the chatter of the other players—everything felt distorted. Even the scenery, usually a comforting backdrop, seemed foreign.

He’d always felt like he belonged. Now, that sense of belonging had been shattered. He leaned his head against the window, the glass cold against his cheek. He kept replaying the coach’s words, trying to extract some hidden meaning, some subtle nuance.

He was adrift, untethered. He wondered what he was going to do now. Where did he go from here?

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