puzzled - Story 108336 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always associated "The Cozy Corner Cafe" with the smell of cinnamon and freshly brewed coffee. Now, the handwritten note on the door, announcing its closure, struck him like a physical blow. He froze, his hand still reaching for the handle.

His eyes darted around the quiet street. He'd envisioned himself old and grey, always coming here, always enjoying the same quiet solitude.

He took a step back, the world feeling suddenly unstable. He felt a weird, sinking feeling in his stomach. He wasn’t sure what he was feeling, but it wasn’t good.

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