puzzled - Story 108419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched as she sat on the curb, the wallet resting in her lap. The evening sky was darkening, the city lights beginning to flicker to life. She'd found the wallet near a bus stop. She flipped through the contents again, a feeling of unease washing over her. She couldn’t shake the sense of unreality. The money was too much to ignore, but the thought of keeping it made her stomach clench. Her thoughts spun in a dizzying circle.

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