puzzled - Story 108845 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The constant banging!" Mrs. Petrov's voice, amplified by the thin walls, grated on Liam’s nerves. He stood stock-still, hands clasped, listening to the torrent. He had spent the morning painting, but he was certain he'd been mindful of the time and noise. He chewed on his lip, his gaze fixed on the wall. The accusation felt absurd. He didn’t understand. He felt a chill, despite the warm sun streaming through the window.

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