puzzled - Story 108266 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza walked away from the announcement, her steps measured, her face set in a carefully constructed mask of composure. Inside, a storm raged. How? She'd been consistent, dedicated. The strongest she had ever been.

She bit the inside of her cheek. The taste of blood was sharp. She’d overheard one of the other girls giggling in the hallway, as if to make a point. Anger flickered within her, but she tamped it down. The feeling, the feeling of being overlooked and dismissed, was overwhelming.

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