puzzled - Story 108263 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight seemed too bright. Avery squinted, the glare intensifying the sharp ache that had begun behind her eyes. She hadn't expected this. Not after the tryouts. She'd felt strong, confident. The other girls' whispers, usually background noise, now buzzed around her head like angry bees.

She turned to leave, her legs feeling like lead weights. A small, involuntary gasp escaped her lips as she stumbled slightly. The world seemed to tilt. She needed a moment. She stopped walking, leaned against the brick wall of the field house, and just…stood.

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