puzzled - Story 108662 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. The green EXIT sign glared down at him, a mocking reminder of their current situation. His coworker, Carol, had started humming a tuneless melody, a habit he'd always found irritating, but now… it just felt strange.

He checked his phone again. No signal. He sighed, feeling a prickle of unease. He considered how unusual this whole thing was.

He paced the tiny space, measuring it out in his mind, back and forth, back and forth. This was not the expected outcome. It was all a bit... off-kilter.

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