puzzled - Story 108346 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Excuse me…” Amelia began, her voice barely audible. Her gaze was fixated on the plush, familiar face staring back at her. *Brownie*. She remembered the day she was given him: the birthday party, the sugar rush, the joyous shrieks.

She felt a prickly heat behind her eyes. Why here? Why now? The randomness of it felt almost cruel. She examined the small tag at the end of the bear’s leg. The price was marked at 75 cents. She could feel her chest tighten.

She reached into her pocket for some change and slowly pulled out the coins. She felt a need to protect something, anything, from the world.

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