puzzled - Story 108929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran his hand through his already tousled hair, a subconscious action meant to soothe his nerves. The diagnosis was bizarre enough on its own, but the fact that he was meant to meet someone else with the same condition... He didn’t know what to feel.

He shifted in the waiting room chair, the vinyl cold against his skin. He had spent his whole life feeling isolated. The world seemed to be closing in around him.

The door opened, and a woman entered. Their eyes met, and he felt a flutter of something akin to alarm.

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