puzzled - Story 108046 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hammering and the shouting echoed through the open windows of Liam's small apartment. The construction was coming from the apartment next door, previously inhabited by a quiet elderly woman. He knew she had recently moved into a nursing home. Who was the new resident? He couldn't remember seeing anyone move in.

He moved to the window and peered over. There were two workmen, and the apartment door was ajar, revealing a completely stripped interior. He felt a coldness wash through him. He rubbed his hands together, suddenly cold.

He found himself wandering over to the door, listening intently. What was going on?

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