puzzled - Story 108558 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the apartment felt thick, heavy with unspoken words. Maya stared at the gecko, perched motionless on its branch. The reptile's beady eyes seemed to fix on her, its gaze unnerving. She felt a pressure in her chest.

Her roommate, Sofia, had always been so organized, so predictable. Now, there was this. A cold feeling spread through her limbs. She struggled to process this sudden change.

“Isn’t he fascinating?” Sofia asked, her voice brimming with enthusiasm.

Maya swallowed hard, trying to keep her voice steady. "I… I thought we'd decided against it." The words felt inadequate, hollow. What had happened? Why?

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