puzzled - Story 108348 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sight of the bear stopped Evelyn in her tracks. She knew that threadbare, almost transparent, patch on its stomach. *Teddy*. The name echoed in her head. She had carried it everywhere as a child.

She felt a chill, unrelated to the breeze that had just picked up. How did it end up here? She felt lost, as if she had forgotten something important. She frowned, then looked at the woman behind the table and asked, "Where did you get this?"

The woman shrugged, "Donation. Someone just dropped it off. It's been here a while." Evelyn’s stomach churned.

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