puzzled - Story 108339 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her mouth was dry. She kept rereading the message: “Regretfully, we must announce the closure of The Tea Room…” Her fingers tapped a restless rhythm on the counter.

The Tea Room was more than a restaurant; it was a retreat. It was her haven. She took a deep breath, and it didn't fill her with calmness like usual.

She pushed back from her desk and walked to the window. The world outside seemed different, distorted. The usual cheerful colors seemed muted, and all the sounds felt a little off.

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