puzzled - Story 108205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The keys were still in Sarah's hand when she walked outside, expecting to head to the grocery store. Her car, her reliable old station wagon, was conspicuously absent. The spot was empty.

She double-checked her pockets, her house keys and wallet were there. What was going on? She felt a tightening in her chest. She had clearly parked it there. Or had she?

She let out a frustrated sigh, her shoulders slumping. This didn’t make any sense.

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