puzzled - Story 108124 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement crackled over the speakers, declaring a delay. Olivia blinked, re-reading the details on her phone. Her best friend’s book launch was today, and she’d crafted a celebratory speech. Now, stranded. She squeezed her eyes shut, a headache beginning to throb behind her temples. She took a deep breath and let it out slowly, but the feeling of disorientation remained. She kept picking at the loose threads on her luggage. Why was this happening?

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