puzzled - Story 108447 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Jessica's palms began to sweat as she walked into the dorm room. The room seemed different, off-kilter. The usual clutter seemed rearranged. Her journal, the one she meticulously concealed under the floorboards, was slightly ajar on her desk. She slowly approached the desk, her breath catching in her throat. The thought of confronting Mark, her roommate, filled her with trepidation. She didn't know how to ask him, but she knew something wasn't right.

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