puzzled - Story 108483 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you sure you want to be here, Maya?" her sister asked, her voice soft with worry. Maya ignored the question, instead focusing on the chipped paint on the windowsill. Her fingers, restless, drummed a nervous rhythm against the wood. The air hung thick with the scent of dust and decay, a familiar smell yet oddly foreign. She remembered the secret hiding spot behind the bookshelves in the living room. Was it really the same room? What had changed?

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