puzzled - Story 108129 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The digital clock taunted her with its relentless ticking. The annual family reunion. Delayed. Sarah felt a peculiar tightness in her chest, a physical manifestation of her growing consternation. She paced back and forth, the rhythmic sound of her footsteps echoing in the almost empty gate. She stopped, staring at her phone, as if the screen held the answers. There was an unsettling feeling in the pit of her stomach. Why this particular day?

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