puzzled - Story 108626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David slumped against his locker, scrolling through his Instagram. A new follower notification. Miss Chen, the music teacher. He'd never considered her to be tech savvy.

His face fell. He'd posted a video of himself playing the drums last week. Had she seen it? Was it any good?

He ran a hand through his hair. He felt a strange flutter in his chest. He wasn't very good, especially next to the pros.

He felt a rush of self-doubt. He bit his lip. He wondered what she thought of him.

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