puzzled - Story 108177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art supplies in the studio felt jarring to Jessica. She had always admired Ava's adventurous spirit, fueled by tales of her glamorous life as a travel photographer. Now, she'd seen her, working at the local drugstore.

She picked up a brush and swirled the bristles in a puddle of paint. The familiar task usually calmed her, but today it offered no solace. Her fingers trembled. She was now overcome with a sense of... something.

She looked at her own paintings and felt a wave of shame. Why would Ava, of all people, lie? She dropped the brush.

She had to know the truth.

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