puzzled - Story 108571 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafe buzzed with Friday night chatter. Liam watched Sarah across the small table, her smile directed at the man next to her. He’d recognized her instantly, even after all this time – the same laugh, the same way of crinkling her nose when she found something funny. He’d walked over, heart hammering, ready to catch up on the years. Now, she just looked... blank. Like she'd never seen him before.

He cleared his throat. "Sarah? It's Liam. Liam Henderson? We used to build forts in the woods behind your house."

Her brow furrowed slightly. "I'm sorry, I don't think I… I'm terrible with names." She turned back to her companion, the conversation seamlessly resuming as if he hadn't spoken. He felt a cold draft, despite the warmth of the room, and the sudden urge to just get up and leave. He ordered a coffee, staring out the window, replaying the last 5 minutes.

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