puzzled - Story 108509 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Buster!" Chloe called out, her voice a little higher than usual. The dog, predictably, ignored her, intent on sniffing the base of her favorite oak tree. She watched the dog for a few moments, a slow burn starting in her chest.

She went outside, the dog was obviously ignoring her. She'd had the fence professionally inspected. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Chloe bent down and examined the ground, a growing feeling of something… unsettling filling her.

She was starting to feel out of her depth.

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