puzzled - Story 108423 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation crackled in Sarah’s hands, the paper thin and brittle. She held it at arm's length, the bold font of "Northgate High, Class of '13" blurring slightly. A laugh bubbled up, a short, sharp sound that quickly died in her throat. She sank into her worn armchair, the velvet digging into her back.

The last time she’d seen most of these people, she’d been… different. Younger, certainly. More impulsive, less… formed. Now, she was a lawyer. A wife. A homeowner. Had they even noticed her transformation? She felt a tremor run through her.

She folded the invitation again and again, creating a small, paper rectangle. She was unsure about attending.

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