puzzled - Story 108427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh, bother,” muttered Emily, pushing the invitation away. Her shoulders slumped. It landed face down on the dining table, a stark white rectangle against the polished wood. She hadn't expected this.

Her reflection in the window showed a woman older, with lines etched around her eyes. She’d always been the quiet one, the observer. The thought of being *observed* again, of having everyone look at her, made her palms sweat.

She wasn't sure how she felt about this. She looked at the invitation again.

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