puzzled - Story 108033 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The newspaper was open on the breakfast table, the headline screaming at her. "Clara Bellweather: The Woman Who Wouldn't Conform." It was *her* face staring back from the photograph, a picture she didn't recall taking. She felt a knot tighten in her chest.

She reached for her tea, her hand shaking so badly that she sloshed it. The article went into detail about her various eccentricities: her love of collecting buttons, her refusal to own a cell phone, her tendency to speak in rhymes. She hadn't told anyone these things, except, perhaps, her therapist.

She felt a sudden urge to flee. She grabbed her coat, not even bothering to finish her breakfast, and stumbled out the door. The world suddenly felt tilted, uncertain.

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