puzzled - Story 108965 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list, typed and printed in bold font, was discovered accidentally while searching for some important papers. "Go skydiving." “Start a business.” “Adopt a puppy.” It was his husband, Daniel's. He never spoke about these things.

"Go to space." The line stared back at Michael, mocking him. He leaned against the counter, suddenly struggling to breathe. They had a perfectly good life, didn’t they? Or, at least, he thought they did.

His throat constricted. He reread the list, the words now forming a silent judgment. The house felt unusually silent, the air thick with unspoken things.

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