puzzled - Story 108820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the past seemed to press down on him. He found himself looking at the man across from him, trying to reconcile the image with the memories. This was a man he had once avoided at all costs. Now, he was supposed to be vulnerable with him? He felt a sense of internal conflict. He had to be calm. He was here for a reason, and he needed help.

He crossed his arms, the action unconsciously defensive. The soft lighting in the room did little to soothe the turmoil within. It was all so… strange.

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