puzzled - Story 108506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This is ridiculous," I muttered, pacing back and forth in my living room. I’d just seen Buster through the window, happily exploring my yard. The fence was brand new. Brand new! I had watched the workers build it. It was solid.

My brow furrowed. I checked the back door, even though I knew I hadn't left it open. My heart skipped a beat. This was more than just a little bit of a nuisance. I felt a prickle of unease on the back of my neck.

I grabbed my keys, determined to solve this mystery.

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