puzzled - Story 108368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card's bright colors seemed to mock Eleanor. She turned it over in her hands, as though expecting some hidden message to suddenly materialize. She hadn’t celebrated her birthday in years. The lack of a signature only added to the feeling of wrongness.

She went to the living room and sat in her favorite armchair, the card still clutched in her hand. She stared out the window, watching the leaves dance in the wind. The sunlight felt unusually harsh. Everything felt off-kilter.

She felt a hollowness in her chest. This was unnerving, this unexpected intrusion into her private life. She closed her eyes for a moment, trying to find her center, but the disquiet wouldn't disappear.

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