puzzled - Story 108122 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tremor ran through Amelia as she stared at the screen. Her grandmother’s 90th birthday party was the following evening, and she’d meticulously planned her arrival. The flight status flashed: Delayed due to weather. She tapped her foot, a quick staccato against the cold tile floor. Her stomach clenched. Amelia glanced at her watch, then back at the board, her jaw tight. She replayed the carefully prepared speech in her head, the words now feeling hollow and distant. Why this? Why now?

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