puzzled - Story 108737 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“What did you say?” David asked, his voice barely a whisper. He felt the blood drain from his face as he stared at his friend, Sam. Sam had announced he was taking a job in Seattle. The words echoed in David's mind, bouncing off the walls of the small coffee shop.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable sense of vertigo. He gripped the edge of the table, as if to steady himself. He blinked several times, trying to clear his vision. The aroma of coffee, usually comforting, suddenly felt cloying.

He watched Sam’s mouth move, but the words seemed to be in a foreign language. He shook his head slightly, as if to dislodge something from his ear. What did this *mean*?

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