puzzled - Story 108282 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A coldness swept through Emily as she saw the familiar name pop up on her screen: David Chen. Back in elementary school, he’d been the undisputed king of playground torment. She could still feel the sting of his words, the way his sneer used to make her stomach clench. Her fingers tightened around her phone.

She found herself walking to the window, the digital notification still a vivid marker on her phone screen. The wind rustled the leaves of the oak tree in her yard. She opened the social media platform, debating what to do. The silence in her apartment was now deafening. A myriad of scenarios flooded her mind, each more confusing than the last. Why bother 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