puzzled - Story 108199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sophie stared at the sign outside the classroom: "Welcome to Mrs. Taylor's Class." A chill ran down her spine. It was a physical sensation, a cold creeping from her shoulders to her fingertips.

She knew Mrs. Taylor well. The memory came in flashes, of her own youth, of a different time. A time that felt both very close and impossibly distant.

She watched her daughter, Chloe, skip into the classroom, full of innocent joy. Sophie felt a tightening in her chest. She needed to be supportive. She needed to be… 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