puzzled - Story 108519 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maria had expected the meeting to be about strategy. She'd been working hard, practicing extra. But Coach Thompson's announcement sent a jolt of disbelief through her.

Her mind raced, desperately trying to make sense of it. She glanced at the team roster pinned to the wall. Her name was crossed out. It was a physical manifestation of her new reality.

She opened her mouth to speak, to ask questions, but the words wouldn't come. She stood there, feeling the ground shift beneath her feet. How could she have been so mistaken?

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