puzzled - Story 108719 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was shining, but the world suddenly felt gray. As David read the notice his face became a mask. He couldn't quite believe it, his brain struggled to process the information.

He walked over to the window, but the view outside, the bustling street and passing cars, seemed distant. His mind raced, grasping at any possible explanation. He needed to clarify, to know the reasons.

He clenched his fists, knuckles turning white. He felt a growing pressure inside his head, a confusing jumble of thoughts and emotions.

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