puzzled - Story 108507 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the autumn leaves did nothing to soothe Maria’s rising anxiety. Buster, of course, was in her garden, joyfully chasing after falling leaves. She placed a hand on her chest, her breath catching in her throat.

She knew she couldn't remember leaving the gate unlocked. The latch was sturdy. The entire fence was in excellent condition. She felt a cold dread creeping into her bones. She wasn't an unreasonable person, but this felt… deliberate.

She reached for her phone, her fingers trembling slightly.

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