puzzled - Story 108474 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang, and when I answered, the delivery man just thrust a package towards me. It was for "Ms. Vivian Sterling," and my name was nowhere on it. I’d replaced her just a few weeks ago. My fingers tightened around the box.

Back inside, I unwrapped it. It was a framed painting: a landscape of rolling hills and a winding river. It was beautiful, but a feeling of disconnect washed over me. I felt like an intruder, privy to something I wasn't meant to see.

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