puzzled - Story 108285 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email read: "You have a friend request from Jessica Thompson." John nearly choked on his lunch. Jessica Thompson, the girl who had orchestrated so many cruel pranks back in high school, the one who’d made his teenage years a living hell. He pushed his plate away, suddenly losing his appetite.

He leaned back in his chair, staring up at the ceiling. The office air conditioner hummed, but he felt a coldness spread through him. He found himself looking for answers, but his mind provided only questions. He ran his hand over his face. What was the purpose of this?

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