puzzled - Story 108356 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Honestly,” she muttered, brushing dust from her jeans. The attic, previously a blank space in her mind, now revealed a trove of peculiar items. Amongst the boxes of Christmas decorations and old furniture lay a series of handmade dolls, each wearing a tiny, intricately stitched dress.

Her fingers traced the delicate features of one doll. Each doll's face was painted with a look of quiet sadness. It made her feel profoundly out of place. Why these dolls? What did they represent?

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