puzzled - Story 108696 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the spreadsheet, his fingers tracing the numbers. It didn't make sense. The numbers were all correct, they showed all the work done, the work that he had done. But the comparison with Sarah's numbers was off.

Something was missing. Something wasn't adding up. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he was doing. The air in his office felt stale, heavy.

He needed to recheck the data. He needed to verify everything. He started opening the files again, and again, unable to let go of the feeling of being in a maze.

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