puzzled - Story 108355 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the attic was heavy with the scent of dried lavender and something else, something metallic. He moved carefully through the accumulated detritus, his hands brushing against forgotten furniture. He stumbled upon a locked wooden chest tucked away in the shadows.

He jiggled the lock, but it wouldn't budge. A growing agitation built within him. He rummaged through the contents of a nearby toolbox until he found a small pry bar. He held his breath as he carefully worked the tool against the lock.

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