puzzled - Story 108647 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David kept rereading the short statement from HR. His mind struggled to find the proper words for it. The news didn’t seem real. He pressed his palms together, trying to ground himself.

He focused on the specifics. What were his options? What was the timeline? He felt a peculiar disorientation, as if the foundation of his career had abruptly crumbled.

The office, usually a hive of activity, now felt subdued. The cheerful chatter had quieted. He looked around and saw similar reactions playing out on his coworkers faces. This wasn’t just a change; it felt like a betrayal.

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