puzzled - Story 108206 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Honey, the car's gone," Mark called inside, his voice tight. His wife, Sarah, came out, her expression mirroring his own.

They both stared at the empty space where their SUV had been. Had they missed a street cleaning sign? They hadn't. The area was well within the legal parking zone.

They both just kept staring at the spot. A shared bewilderment passed between them. A growing sense of something amiss began to take root in the pit of their stomachs.

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