puzzled - Story 108985 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Condos? Here?" David said out loud, to no one in particular. He was staring at the flyer, crumpled slightly in his grasp. He’d just gotten home from his late shift at the diner. He slumped onto his worn sofa, the springs protesting under his weight. He’d always imagined staying here forever, even though he didn't own the building. Now, the future was a hazy, indistinct shape. He felt… adrift. He glanced around his apartment, seeing it with fresh eyes, and the air seemed to have thickened.

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