puzzled - Story 108596 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No,” Liam whispered, the word barely audible. He reread the letter, the words blurring. His head throbbed. He’d envisioned the book launch, the reviews, the validation. Now, his vision seemed to be obscured. He felt a strange tingling sensation in his fingertips. He leaned back in his chair, staring at the ceiling, feeling an uncanny emptiness where excitement had resided. What went wrong? He wanted to shout. He needed to understand.

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