puzzled - Story 108316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email on his phone. The subject line was innocuous: "Language Exchange." His wife, Olivia, had been taking evening classes, but she never mentioned the subject. He scrolled down. The email was in a script he didn’t recognise. He didn’t read the content.

He looked up at Olivia, who was arranging flowers in a vase. She looked calm. He went out to the patio. The late afternoon sun was warm on his skin, but he felt a chill. The air suddenly felt thinner.

He went to find her later, and she was on her laptop. When he approached, she quickly closed it. He saw the slight tremble in her hand as she moved the mouse.

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