puzzled - Story 108349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As she held the bear, a wave of memories flooded through Jessica, as bright and vivid as if they had happened yesterday. It was the same bear, *Buddy*, she'd cherished, then so carefully placed in a box labeled “memories”. Where was the box now?

She slowly turned, searching the faces around her. Why was this here? She couldn't understand it. A wave of frustration crashed over her. She knew a nagging sense of being adrift.

She cleared her throat. “How much?” she asked the man. He glanced at her, then back at the bear, and then said, "Five dollars." It was a simple transaction, but it felt enormous.

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