puzzled - Story 108043 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you hear?" Maria asked her husband that evening, her voice laced with bewilderment. "The Andersons are adding a second story. A whole second story!"

Her husband, engrossed in the newspaper, barely grunted. But Maria found herself pacing the living room. The Andersons lived in a modest, one-story bungalow. It had been there for decades. Why a second story? What would it look like?

She pictured the construction, the disruption, the noise. She crossed her arms, a shiver running down her spine, and replayed the details of the past few days in her mind. Had they mentioned this? Had she missed something?

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