puzzled - Story 108950 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of her perfume lingered in the air as Michael picked up the hidden manuscript. The character "Alex" was, unmistakably, him. The novel, detailing his work, his hobbies, his insecurities, felt like a violation. He wandered around the apartment, the comfortable surroundings now seeming unfamiliar. His hands felt clammy. He sat heavily on the sofa, the manuscript feeling heavy in his lap. A strange tension coiled in his stomach, a feeling that kept him from sleeping.

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