puzzled - Story 108465 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I just… don’t get it, Dad.” Michael stared at the dusty, leather-bound journal. His father, usually so proud of his heritage, had decided to sell it. It was the chronicle of their family’s journey from Ireland, a treasure trove of stories and secrets. His temples throbbed. He kept wanting to ask questions, but they wouldn't form. The room seemed to shrink, the walls closing in. He felt like he'd stepped into a dream from which he couldn't awaken.

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