puzzled - Story 108459 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her carefully constructed world was crumbling around her. She had meticulously curated every aspect of her life. Now, the DNA test results had revealed a truth that shattered everything. She couldn't understand. Why? How?

She ran her fingers over her face. She felt an overwhelming need to be in control, but she couldn’t even find a solid emotional anchor. Her chest ached. Tears threatened to spill, but she refused to let them.

The familiar objects in her apartment, the books on the shelves, the paintings on the wall, seemed to shift in their placement, altering and rearranging her perception. She didn’t know which way was up.

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