puzzled - Story 108318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The takeout containers were on the table, their meal finished. He was watching his girlfriend, Jessica, clear the dishes. She hummed a melody he didn’t recognise. It was one that sounded… familiar, yet alien.

He rose from the table. "Everything good?" he asked.

She nodded, wiping the counter. She turned to face him, the smile on her lips seeming forced. He noticed a small notebook lying near the bin. It was covered in messy handwriting. He picked it up. The words were written in a language his family spoke. The handwriting looked like hers. A sense of unease settled in the pit of his stomach.

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