puzzled - Story 108259 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flyer announcing the upcoming art exhibition featured Maya’s painting, prominently displayed, but credited to “Chloe Beaumont.” A wave of nausea washed over her. She gripped the edge of the table, her knuckles turning white.

She felt a buzzing sensation in her ears, a high-pitched whine that seemed to amplify the silence in the room. This was her work, her vision, her life’s ambition. And it was gone.

She closed her eyes, trying to compose herself, to make sense of the situation. Her breath hitched in her chest. She needed answers. And she needed them now.

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