puzzled - Story 108286 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Lisa Miller sent you a friend request." The notification appeared just as Michael was about to head out for his evening run. He stopped mid-stride, his running shoes now mere lumps of rubber on the floor. Lisa Miller, the girl who had always seemed to be out of his reach.

He went to the window to watch the sunset, which was now a swirl of oranges and pinks. His reflection stared back at him, a mask of bewilderment. He couldn’t shake the sensation that he was missing something. He paced back and forth, unable to settle. A feeling that could only be described as a strange itch had now come to haunt him.

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