puzzled - Story 108679 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sense of imbalance washed over David as he reread the email. His breath caught in his throat. Professor Williams was leaving. His carefully planned research project, the very foundations of his work, seemed to be collapsing. He felt a sudden, sharp ache in his chest. He got up from his desk and started pacing, unable to sit still. The familiar objects in his room -- books, posters, notes -- appeared strangely foreign and useless. The walls seemed to be closing in.

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