puzzled - Story 108004 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the window as Leo sat hunched over his sketchbook. The storm seemed to mirror his internal state. He’d seen it again, his intricate floral design blooming across a stranger's back at the supermarket. He felt a knot tighten in his chest.

He slammed the book shut, the sound echoing in the small studio. The sensation was a tightening, a feeling of displacement. He ran a hand over his own arm, a nervous tic he hadn't realized he was doing. Where did they find the template? He felt a sense of invasion.

His studio, usually a sanctuary, suddenly felt constricting.

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