puzzled - Story 108988 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, this is… something,” Liam muttered, staring at the notice. He usually loved surprises, but this didn’t feel like one. He ran a hand through his already messy hair, a habit when he felt… off-kilter. He had just spent all his savings on a new, high-end stereo system. Was it all for nothing? He looked out the window at the busy street below, and the world seemed to have changed. He didn’t know which direction to look.

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