puzzled - Story 108466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun streamed through the dusty window, illuminating the intricate carvings on the antique writing desk. It had always been in the family, passed down from mother to daughter. Her sister, Clara, had never shown any interest in it. Now she announced she was going to part with it, her voice clipped and distant. A sudden chill crept into Elena’s bones. She crossed her arms, a sense of disconnect washing over her. The space between them seemed to stretch, an invisible gulf.

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