puzzled - Story 108390 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The escape room was designed to test their teamwork, challenging puzzles around every corner. "Ava" and "Leo" had been looking forward to this, a fun and unique date. Leo had planned this as a surprise.

The door swung open, revealing the other team. Two people emerged, looking triumphant. One of them was “Leo,” his face lit with a broad smile. The other woman was someone Ava had never seen before.

Ava’s jaw dropped slightly. The woman turned to her, a confused expression on her face. Leo froze, his eyes widening. He looked between the two women, his face slowly turning pale. The air in the room felt suddenly thick, heavy. Ava felt the ground shift beneath her feet.

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