puzzled - Story 108505 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun beat down on David's back as he knelt beside his freshly planted tomato plants, diligently watering them. A shadow fell across the garden. It was Buster, tail wagging, standing proudly amidst his handiwork. David felt a rush of… what? Irritation? No. Something more complex.

He leaned back on his heels, the watering can dangling forgotten in his hand. He had personally supervised the fence's construction. He knew it was solid. So how...? The question lingered in the air, unanswered.

He stared at the dog, a slow frown settling on his face.

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