puzzled - Story 108194 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David paced his living room, phone pressed to his ear. "I'm just... surprised," he stammered to his wife, Sarah. "Mrs. Evans? The same Mrs. Evans? Surely there must be a mistake."

He ran a hand through his hair, the action a familiar gesture of unease. He remembered Mrs. Evans. Her meticulous handwriting, her unwavering belief in the importance of grammar. It was… a lot to process. Now, his daughter, Chloe, was going to be learning from her too?

"David, breathe," Sarah's voice, though calm, held a note of amusement. He sighed. "It's just… a lot to take in."

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