puzzled - Story 108835 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The digital banking website was open on David's laptop. He’d logged in, curious, after overhearing his wife on a phone call. The account balance, a significant sum, stared back at him. He leaned back in his chair, suddenly needing air.

He stared at the screen, unable to process the information. It didn't make sense. They'd always shared everything, or so he thought. He felt a sudden, sharp pressure in his chest.

He got up and walked to the window. The world outside seemed oddly muted, the vibrant colors subdued. He wanted to shout, to scream, but only a low groan escaped his lips.

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