puzzled - Story 108824 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blueprints lay splayed across the table, each line and angle familiar. David swallowed hard, feeling his throat constrict. The project, his pet project, was on the table here. The exact same dimensions, the same structural supports, the same innovative design.

He ran a hand through his hair, dislodging the reading glasses he wore for a bit of show. The air felt heavy, oppressive, as if the room were closing in on him. He felt as if he could barely breathe.

He grabbed his phone. He needed answers. He walked toward the door to go and find some.

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