puzzled - Story 108828 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The journalist scanned the rival newspaper's front page, his pulse quickening. The article's headline, the angle, the sources cited – they were a mirror image of his own planned exposé. The blood drained from his face.

He slumped back in his chair, feeling a sudden wave of dizziness. He felt the world tilt around him, the office around him seeming to twist. His breath hitched in his throat.

He knew what he had to do. He reached for the phone.

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