puzzled - Story 108137 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafeteria buzzed around Chloe, but it might as well have been silent. The accusation from the teacher was a deafening sound. She poked at the food on her tray, suddenly finding the thought of eating repulsive. A knot had tightened in her chest.

She had spent weeks meticulously researching, taking notes, crafting her arguments. The thought that her work was somehow considered fraudulent felt like a betrayal of her own efforts. The familiar setting, normally a place of social comfort, seemed wrong, the chatter of others a distant drone.

She grabbed her things and left, wanting to find a quiet place to think. The air felt heavy, pressing down on her.

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