puzzled - Story 108442 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tremor ran through Leo’s hands as he stared at the half-filled coffee cup. The lingering scent of cinnamon, usually comforting, now felt tainted. He'd been looking for his charger, and the place he was sure he left it was empty, and the pages of his diary were open just a tad too much. He remembered placing it closed. His stomach clenched. He glanced at David, his roommate, who was currently engrossed in a video game, his brow furrowed in concentration. "Hey," Leo began, his voice sounding thinner than he intended. "Did you, uh... did you see my charger?"

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