puzzled - Story 108896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"F." The single letter mocked him from the top of the physics exam. David's mouth went dry. He blinked, trying to make the grade vanish, but it remained. He had worked diligently, attended every class, and sought help when he needed it.

He sat motionless, his mind racing. He replayed the exam in his head, scrutinizing each question, desperate to find the error. His brow furrowed in concentration, and he felt his heartbeat quicken. This just didn't make sense.

He stood up, then started pacing, and finally sat back down.

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