puzzled - Story 108388 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The seaside restaurant was dimly lit, the sound of the ocean providing a gentle backdrop to their evening. “Grace” had been looking forward to a special date with "Alex". He had promised a seafood dinner, a walk on the beach at sunset.

She waited. He was late. Then, she saw him arrive. With another woman. He was holding her hand.

Grace felt as though she was observing the scene from a great distance. Her vision swam. They were laughing. The other woman was wearing the exact seashell necklace that Grace remembered lending Alex. Alex then looked up and saw her. He froze.

The woman turned and gave Grace a curious glance. Alex's face turned white.

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