puzzled - Story 108740 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was mid-sentence, recounting the previous night's game, when Maria interrupted, saying she was moving to France. Alex just stopped, mid-word. He looked at Maria, bewildered. He wanted to understand why. He wanted to understand how.

His mind felt like a jumbled mess. He stared at Maria, and all he could see were the years they'd spent together, memories flitting past like disconnected film frames. The café around them seemed to fade away.

He felt an unfamiliar tightness in his chest. A strange buzzing filled his ears. He wasn't sure how to react, or even what to say. He looked at Maria again, searching for some clue, some hint of the truth. His world seemed to have tilted.

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