puzzled - Story 108467 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

His grandmother, usually a picture of vibrant health, sat hunched over the kitchen table. In front of her lay the antique pocket watch, its delicate hands frozen at the same time for over a century. A tremor went through him, an unsettling feeling. She pushed it across the table towards him, her eyes, normally filled with life, were vacant. He leaned forward, trying to understand. The watch’s cold metal offered no answers, only a persistent, unsettling void.

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