puzzled - Story 108045 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I don’t get it,” Amelia muttered to her cat, Mittens, as she sat with her coffee cup on the porch. The Martins, usually so private, were having their entire driveway ripped up and replaced with what looked like cobblestones. It was extravagant.

Mittens blinked, unimpressed. Amelia continued, the words tumbling out in a confused stream. Where did they get the money? Why cobblestones? She’d always wanted a cobblestone driveway, but the price tag always left her thinking otherwise.

She found herself checking her own bank balance, a wave of confusion washing over her. She couldn’t shake the feeling that she was missing 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