puzzled - Story 108899 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"C-". The grade hung in the air, a silent accusation. The computer science project had consumed her. Olivia had poured all of her time and energy into it.

She reread the rubric, trying to align it with her code. Her eyes scanned the lines and lines of code. Frustration built. She felt a strange tingling sensation in her fingertips. She began to tap them nervously on the desk. She reread the comments left by the professor, and they didn't make any sense.

She sighed and rubbed her forehead.

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