puzzled - Story 108193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school newsletter lay open on Emily's kitchen counter. She re-read the heading: "Welcome to Year 1, with Miss Peterson!" A wave of… something washed over her. It wasn't quite dread, but it certainly wasn't joy.

She glanced out the window at her daughter, Lily, happily skipping on the sidewalk. Miss Peterson. The name resonated deep within her memory, bringing with it a flood of vivid recollections. She could practically smell the chalk dust and hear Miss Peterson's melodic voice echoing in her mind.

Emily leaned against the counter, suddenly feeling the weight of the day settle heavily on her shoulders. "It's fine," she muttered to herself, her voice barely a whisper. "Everything's fine."

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