puzzled - Story 108289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dinner party was in full swing when her phone buzzed with an incoming friend request from Susan Davis. Margaret immediately felt a rush of heat to her cheeks. She set her phone down as if it was on fire. Susan Davis, the girl who had made her life miserable in high school.

She excused herself from the table, claiming a need for fresh air. Outside, the night was cool and quiet. She inhaled deeply, trying to calm her racing heart. She stood there for a long time, the shadows of the trees dancing around her. This was so unexpected, she could barely believe it. Why, after all these years, would she suddenly want to connect?

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