puzzled - Story 108495 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artist, Elara, slowly lowered the tablet, her breath catching in her throat. The digital painting, her masterpiece, was replicated exactly, in the gallery. The colors, the brushstrokes, the very essence of her soul… Plagiarism. A chill ran down her spine, and she felt the blood drain from her face. She felt an urge to run, to escape the suffocating reality of it all. It felt like someone had snatched her very identity and presented it as their own. She wanted to scream.

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