puzzled - Story 108139 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of nausea washed over Sophia as the professor spoke. The words, usually so clear, became distorted and hazy. Her hands felt clammy. She pressed her fingertips together, trying to ground herself.

She closed her eyes for a moment, picturing the hours spent in the library, the late nights poring over books. The accusations cast a shadow over all of that, a feeling of deep violation.

She didn't know how to respond, what to say, or even where to begin. The professor continued, but her words lost all meaning. She felt utterly and completely lost.

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