puzzled - Story 108387 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rooftop bar offered a panoramic view of the city skyline, twinkling with lights. "Noah" had arranged this date with "Mia," wanting to impress her with the romantic setting. He'd even brought her a small, antique music box.

He found her already there, laughing and talking with someone else. A man. The man was holding a small, antique music box. The exact one Noah had intended to give Mia.

Noah felt his heart sink. His feet felt heavy, like lead. He walked towards them, a strange sense of detachment washing over him. Mia turned, her smile fading as she saw him.

"Noah? What are you doing here?" she asked, her voice tight. The man looked at Noah and shrugged.

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