puzzled - Story 108055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dim light of the pawn shop seemed to cast a shadow over everything, but the ring in the display case shone brightly, its ruby winking at her. It was the ring she'd last seen on her grandmother's hand, only a year before her death. The memories hit her like a physical blow.

Her fingers trembled as she pointed at the glass. She felt a tightening in her chest, a sensation akin to a knot slowly constricting. Her grandmother had always been so careful with it. It had never left her finger. She could feel her palms getting sweaty.

“That’s a nice piece,” the shop owner said, his voice a low rumble. "Got a good price on it too." She could only nod, unable to speak.

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