puzzled - Story 108819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he still did. The realization that *he* was his therapist felt like a punch to the gut. All these years, and now, this. The room, decorated in calming earth tones, felt like a cage. He couldn't shake the feeling that he was trapped. He stared at the diplomas on the wall, desperately searching for something to ground him.

"So," the man said, his voice level and soothing, "tell me what brings you in." The man’s demeanor was so different from what he remembered.

His mind was struggling to catch up.

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