puzzled - Story 108095 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, and the sound made her jump. It was her sister, calling to check on her. "How are things?" her sister asked. The usual, breezy question felt loaded. How could she explain the unsettled feeling? The sudden change of dynamics, the unspoken questions hanging in the air?

She took a deep breath, forcing a smile into her voice. “Fine,” she said, her voice sounding less than convincing even to her own ears. The word felt hollow, echoing in the cavern of her current experience.

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