puzzled - Story 108078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dating app notification blinked: “New match!” He clicked. It was 'SunshineGal,' the woman he’d been chatting with for weeks, sharing jokes and dreams. Her profile picture showed the exact cafe he was sitting in right now.

His breath hitched. He scanned the room, his eyes darting from face to face, searching, seeking some form of explanation. The cafe, once a familiar haven, now felt like a stage, and he was the unwilling performer.

He ran a hand through his hair, the action almost involuntary. The comfortable feeling of the past weeks had been completely displaced. He felt strangely exposed.

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