puzzled - Story 108352 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A chill prickled the back of his neck as he surveyed the attic's contents. He hadn't expected this. Empty boxes, a moth-eaten armchair, and then, tucked away in a corner, a collection of intricately carved wooden animals. He picked up a small, exquisitely detailed wolf. Its eyes seemed to watch him, and he instinctively set it back down.

He ran a hand through his hair, a knot forming in his stomach. What was the meaning behind these objects? The previous owners had simply vanished, leaving no forwarding address. The animals, the intricate carvings, seemed to whisper secrets he couldn't decipher.

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