puzzled - Story 108470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the tarnished, silver locket in his hand, its surface cool against his skin. His aunt had told him he could have it; she no longer wished to keep it. This felt wrong. He'd always admired it, the way it had hung around his mother's neck. A feeling, heavy and thick, settled in his gut. The reasons she gave seemed hollow, insubstantial, leaving him feeling adrift. His grip tightened on the locket, as if he could somehow hold onto something that was slipping away.

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