puzzled - Story 108437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio blared in the background as Maria scrolled through her social media feed. Suddenly, an ad popped up, promoting "Chef Marco's Incredible Empanadas." The image showed a tray of empanadas, looking identical to the ones she sold at her food stall. She froze, her breath catching in her throat.

A sense of disbelief washed over her. She recognized the crimping, her signature technique. The filling, a combination of spiced beef and potatoes, was her family's recipe, handed down through generations. Her jaw tightened as she read the ad's text, which described the empanadas as "a taste of tradition." Her tradition! Her heart felt like a lump of cold stone.

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