puzzled - Story 108037 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She slammed the book shut, the sound echoing in the silent room. "Olivia: A Portrait of Resilience." The words on the page blurred before her tear-filled eyes. She'd been through a lot.

She hadn't authorized a book about her life. The book described events she’d tried desperately to bury. She felt a cold dread creeping up her spine.

She ran her hand through her hair, and then rubbed at her eyes, trying to clear the mist from her vision. The entire experience had left her feeling cold, and exposed.

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