puzzled - Story 108305 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Did you see that?” Carol asked, her voice barely a whisper. The spreadsheet was circulating on the intranet. It confirmed what she’d suspected. The newer hire, John, was making a significant premium. A wave of heat flushed her cheeks.

She clenched her fists beneath the desk. She felt a sudden urge to get up and leave the office, to escape this strange discomfort. But she remained seated. She turned to her desk, needing something to focus on, and started organizing some files, though the task did little to abate her feelings.

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