puzzled - Story 108542 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam stared at the phone screen, the unfamiliar name "ShadowWolf88" staring back at him. His son, Ethan, claimed to have no social media accounts besides the family-approved Instagram. This account, however, was filled with edgy drawings, cryptic poetry, and a bio that read, "Lost in the void." A small knot formed in his stomach.

He felt heat flush his cheeks as he navigated the profile. A photo of Ethan, or a person who definitely looked like Ethan, with black eyeliner and a vacant gaze, made his breath catch. He closed the app and then opened it again, needing a second look.

Liam paced the living room, a restless energy buzzing beneath his skin. He stopped and ran a hand through his hair, the action somehow unable to soothe his unease. He felt as if he had stumbled into a secret compartment, a part of Ethan's life that was carefully locked away. The questions swirled in his head; was this some kind of phase, or something deeper?

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