puzzled - Story 108320 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of incense filled the small room. He found his husband, Thomas, sitting on the floor, cross-legged. Thomas was known for his love of meditation, but this was different.

He leaned against the doorway. Thomas’ eyes were closed, his lips moving silently. He watched Thomas for a moment. He realized Thomas was not chanting a mantra. He was speaking in a language he hadn’t heard him use in years.

He stepped inside the room, and the door closed behind him. He stood there, frozen. Thomas opened his eyes. There was a look in his eyes he’d never seen before.

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