puzzled - Story 108016 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I'm joining the Hare Krishnas," my cousin, Mark, announced with a beatific smile, the words tumbling out of his mouth. It was as if he was talking about the weather.

I stared at him. He’d always been a bit…well, predictable. This was anything but. His normally messy hair was slicked back, and he was wearing a brightly colored robe. I felt my face flush.

The air in the room seemed to thicken, making it difficult to breathe. The scent of incense filled my nostrils, a strange, exotic fragrance that did little to calm my racing thoughts. The familiar became foreign.

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