puzzled - Story 108278 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new building was modern, sleek, and utterly alien. Maya stood in the lobby, the noise and movement overwhelming. After five years of quiet research in the lab, she was transferred to public relations. She felt a cold shiver run through her.

She touched her cheek. The makeup they suggested felt too heavy, a mask. She wanted to scrub it off.

She began to walk towards the new office, her steps halting and unsure. The elevator doors opened with a whoosh, and she hesitated before stepping inside. The reflection stared back at her and she did not recognize the person in the mirror.

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