puzzled - Story 108473 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows as Thomas opened the door, finding a small, unmarked box. It was addressed to "Mr. Harold Davies, Unit 4B." He blinked, scanning the hallway. This was his unit, but the name... the former resident. He felt a sudden chill, despite the heat radiating from the apartment.

Inside, he found a collection of old photographs, all black and white. One showed a young couple laughing, another a dog with floppy ears. He felt a knot tighten in his chest as he went through them. Who were these people? Why was he the recipient of their memories?

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