puzzled - Story 108770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun glinted off the remaining stub. He approached the area, slowly. The massive Redwood he had planted as a boy. It was gone.

His steps slowed, and he brought his hand up to his face, resting his fingers on his forehead. The weight of the moment sunk in. He looked around him, bewildered.

"I don't... I don't understand," he breathed out, his voice barely audible. He brought his hands up and dropped them to his sides, utterly deflated.

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