puzzled - Story 108417 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the wallet felt strangely heavy in her bag. She glanced around the bustling coffee shop, then back at the worn leather. It was a simple thing, really, nothing flashy. She’d discovered it on the counter while she was waiting for her latte. Yet, the contents were far from simple. Several thousand dollars. It was all a bit…strange. She tapped her foot impatiently, debating what course of action to take. Her mind felt like a chaotic jumble.

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