puzzled - Story 108569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A shiver ran down Clara's spine as she read the message. From Mia. A costume party. On the same day. Clara had envisioned a relaxed brunch with her closest friends, a gentle start to a new year.

She clutched her phone, her knuckles turning white. The gentle warmth of the sunlight streaming through her window now felt oppressive, as if some unseen pressure was building. She felt as though she had been thrust into an unfamiliar situation.

She closed her eyes, trying to clear her head. The image of the brunch setting she had meticulously planned, the food, the decorations, faded in comparison to the sudden feeling of competition.

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