puzzled - Story 108249 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her heart hammered against her ribs as she read the discharge papers. “Chronic pulmonary disease… requiring oxygen therapy.” The words spun, mocking her. She ran five miles every morning. She felt, for the most part, fine.

A wave of dizziness washed over her. The room began to spin. She felt a deep, profound sense of displacement, as if she were lost in a labyrinth. She needed to know what was happening.

She struggled to breathe. Her vision blurred. She felt a cold, hard knot form in her stomach.

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