puzzled - Story 108598 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone slipped from David's grasp, clattering to the floor. The rejection email, open on his screen, felt like a slap in the face. He crouched, retrieving the phone, his movements jerky, uncoordinated. His chest felt tight. He ran a hand over his face. The air in his small apartment seemed thin. He stared at his reflection in the dark screen, his own features seeming alien to him, the feeling of disbelief washing over him in waves.

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