puzzled - Story 108364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card sat on the kitchen table, a splash of color against the drab reality of the morning. For Elias, this was just strange. He hadn’t had a birthday card in years, especially not an anonymous one.

He ate his cereal slowly, his eyes darting from the card to the window. The world outside looked perfectly ordinary. Birds sang, a dog barked in the distance. He could almost feel his pulse quickening.

He grabbed his keys and wallet. As he walked to his car, he kept glancing back at the house, at the card. He felt a deep unease, an unsettled feeling he couldn’t place. He got into his car and started the engine, but hesitated. He felt the need to get out of there, away from the unknown.

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