puzzled - Story 108550 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Frank ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands. The account, "ArtisticSoulSophie," was a revelation. His daughter, Sophie, seemed to have an entire life dedicated to painting, drawing, and photography, a creative output he had never seen before.

He felt a deep discomfort, a sense of disconnect. Sophie, to him, was always absorbed in her studies. This account revealed a passion, a talent, and a whole world she had kept secret. He felt a sudden, sharp pang of something akin to jealousy.

Frank stood up, began to pace the room. He felt a confusing mix of emotions; pride in her talent, sadness that she hadn’t shared this with him, a fear of not knowing his own daughter. The room felt suddenly small, suffocating. He stopped by the window and looked out at the darkening sky, feeling entirely lost.

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