puzzled - Story 108503 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled Sarah’s kitchen. She hummed a cheerful tune as she prepared a simple breakfast. The cheerful song died in her throat when she glanced out the window. Buster. Again. This time, he was happily digging in her vegetable patch.

Her jaw clenched. She knew she had checked the fence the night before. She'd walked the entire perimeter. She was absolutely certain there was no way in. A strange knot twisted in her stomach.

Sarah, forgetting her breakfast, went outside, her face a mask of confusion.

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