puzzled - Story 108240 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The girl slumped back against the chair, eyes wide. The article, "Ava's Adolescent Angst: Diary Dumps," detailed her deepest insecurities. She couldn't believe it. She felt a cold dread creep into her bones.

A strange pressure built behind her eyes, and she felt a strong urge to cry. Her hands trembled as she reached for the mouse, attempting to close the browser. She felt a surge of anger, directed at something she couldn’t even name.

She leaned forward, burying her face in her hands, attempting to block out the terrible words. Her shoulders shook with a silent grief.

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