puzzled - Story 108107 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit her like a surprise attack. Train her replacement. The words were simple, but the impact was seismic. She felt disoriented, her mind reeling. She leaned back in her chair, the leather creaking under her weight. Her brow furrowed.

She hadn't been expecting this. Why now? Why her? The questions swirled in her head. She picked up her pen and clicked it absentmindedly, over and over again, the rhythmic sound amplifying the turmoil inside.

The first training session was awkward. She found herself stumbling over explanations, her words catching in her throat, a strange feeling of alienation gripping her. It was a strange role reversal.

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