puzzled - Story 108844 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the neatly typed letter on his doormat, mentioning the "late-night revelry." Mark read it again, his gaze darting from the words to his surroundings. His apartment was still. He'd been asleep by ten, dead to the world, exhausted from his double shift. The accusation of a party… it was impossible. He rubbed his eyes, feeling a pressure behind them. He checked his phone logs, just in case. No calls, no texts. He felt a rising sense of unease.

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