puzzled - Story 108535 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"There must be some mistake," Sarah insisted, her voice tight with disbelief. She stood in the financial aid office, facing the stern-faced woman behind the desk. The woman, unfazed, repeated the details, the error, the reallocation. Sarah's chest felt constricted. Her hands clenched and unclenched. The air in the room felt thick, oppressive. She crossed her arms, a shield against the unsettling news. She refused to let the woman's indifference affect her.

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