puzzled - Story 108319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dinner party was in full swing, the sound of laughter filling the air. He scanned the room, looking for his girlfriend, Emily. He found her talking animatedly to his friend, Michael.

He felt a vague discomfort. He decided to join them. As he approached, he heard a phrase. It was a phrase he hadn’t heard in years, a phrase from his childhood, a phrase in his dialect. Emily, speaking it fluently.

He stopped, his steps uncertain. His smile faltered. Emily saw him. Her face went blank, and then she changed the subject to something else.

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