puzzled - Story 108440 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the menu, a menu he'd seen a thousand times. But something felt off. "Chef Ricardo's Secret Pasta Carbonara," it announced. His Pasta Carbonara. The one that earned him a reputation around town. The one he created when he was just starting out in the industry.

He felt a sudden tremor run through him. This was a restaurant he had never been to before. The menu described his dish with a glowing review. The only difference he could spot was a garnish of parsley. He felt a creeping discomfort. He called over the waiter, a question poised on his tongue.

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