puzzled - Story 108197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school directory felt heavy in her hand. "Mr. Harrison, Grade 6." Grace’s breath caught in her throat. Mr. Harrison. Her hand squeezed the directory. A rush of images, of classroom projects and assigned readings, flooded her.

She found herself wandering through old photo albums, seeking validation, seeking… what, exactly? She couldn't articulate the feeling. She felt disoriented, her usual sense of calm replaced by a pervasive unease.

Her son, Ben, called to her from the other room. Grace closed the album, her mind still in the past, her heart beating a hesitant rhythm. She should act normal.

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