puzzled - Story 108203 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar screech of the garage door opening was a jarring contrast to the sight that greeted Maria. The space in front of her house, usually occupied by her bright red convertible, was completely vacant. Her hand flew to her mouth.

She took a step back, her eyes darting around the neighborhood. Her breath hitched. The street was quiet, the houses seemed to watch her. Had she parked somewhere else? She never did that.

A tremor went through her, her body suddenly feeling cold. Her mind spun, struggling to reconcile what she was seeing with what she knew.

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