puzzled - Story 108664 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you sure you tried the help button?" Michael asked, his voice barely a whisper. He fidgeted with the hem of his shirt, pulling at it. Across from him, Emily gave him a weary nod. They had tried everything.

Three hours and nothing. The lights flickered again, casting long, dancing shadows that made the elevator seem even smaller. He kept looking at the steel doors, expecting them to open.

He felt this slow, unsettling feeling grow in his chest. Was this some kind of joke? Why was it taking so long? He wasn't sure what to think about it.

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