puzzled - Story 108409 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was a labyrinth of forgotten treasures. Ethan tried to make sense of what was happening. He didn't know what his feelings were, but they were certainly not what he'd expected. His sister, Olivia, was excitedly unearthing boxes and calling out for him.

He picked up a tarnished silver locket and it seemed so significant. He opened it and it felt utterly meaningless. His eyes flitted around the room, to the cobwebs, to the dusty furniture. What was he supposed to do with all of this?

He closed the locket and put it down. He glanced at the sun shining through the window. He was completely out of sorts.

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