puzzled - Story 108235 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The librarian, Mrs. Davies, always kept her composure. But right now, the woman felt her heart pound in her chest. The article on the library's computer screen, displayed in glaring font, was titled: “Mrs. Davies' Secrets Unlocked.” The text was from her teenage journal.

She blinked rapidly, as though trying to clear away a hallucination. Her hands felt numb as she tried to comprehend the situation. She felt an urge to flee, to vanish from the room.

Her breath hitched in her throat. She fumbled with the mouse, accidentally clicking on a comment section. Comments like "Wow, she was such a weirdo back then" swam before her eyes.

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