puzzled - Story 108077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The delivery driver handed her the package, a small box containing a book she'd been eagerly awaiting. It was addressed to her. On the delivery slip, she recognized the handwriting - the same distinctive scrawl as her online book club friend, 'BookwormBess.'

A sense of bewilderment flooded her. Her heart raced, a frantic drumbeat in her chest. She had never given Bess her address. Her hands trembled as she ripped open the package, the anticipation now laced with a growing unease.

She sat heavily on her couch, staring at the book, the vibrant colors of the cover now oddly muted. The world had tilted on its axis.

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