puzzled - Story 108716 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the notice, turning it over and over in his hands. Liam was certain there had been some mistake. He paced the length of his studio apartment, his steps quick and restless.

He felt the familiar thrum of anxiety begin to build in his chest. His gaze flitted around the room, from the overflowing bookshelf to the cluttered drafting table. Everything suddenly felt foreign.

He stopped, his breath catching in his throat. He had to figure this out, he thought, but the path ahead was obscured by a thick fog. He felt a deep sense of disorientation.

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