puzzled - Story 108332 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John stared at the email, the words blurring before his eyes. "Sadly, The Golden Spoon will be closing its doors..." He blinked, then blinked again. The words were still there, taunting him.

He reread the sentence, his jaw clenching. He leaned back in his chair, the office around him fading into a hazy background. He’d eaten at The Golden Spoon every Saturday for brunch for as long as he could remember.

His chest felt tight, as if a hand was squeezing the air out of his lungs. He instinctively reached for his phone, about to call someone, anyone, to verify the information. He stopped himself, realizing it wouldn't change anything.

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