puzzled - Story 108513 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah stared at her reflection in the locker room mirror, her eyes wide. She’d always considered herself a good swimmer, dedicated, disciplined. Coach Peterson's words, "You're off the team," echoed in her mind.

She ran her hand over her face, feeling the sting of unshed tears. The air in the locker room felt thick, heavy, like she was submerged in a tank of water. Why? She desperately wanted to know the reason, but she couldn't bring herself to ask.

Picking up her bag, she left her swim gear in a heap on the bench, not bothering to fold it. She felt a profound disconnect, as though she were watching her own life unfold from a distance. The world seemed to wobble.

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