puzzled - Story 108247 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Type 2 Diabetes… advanced stage?” The words swam before Clara's eyes. She had come in because she'd felt a bit lethargic lately, nothing more. A little tired. She wasn't aware of having anything remotely resembling this.

She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. It was a strange, unsettling feeling, like being adrift on a vast, unfamiliar ocean. She didn’t know which way was up, or how to navigate the current.

The doctor was talking, explaining the implications. But the words were meaningless, forming an incomprehensible language. Her head throbbed. She wanted to scream.

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