puzzled - Story 108575 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph, still tucked in her wallet, felt heavy. She stared at it again, the faded image of her and Michael, young and carefree, building a sandcastle on the beach. He'd been sitting at the bar, his back to her, and she’d known it was him. She approached, heart thudding a frantic rhythm.

“Michael?” she'd asked, her voice a little breathless. He turned, his eyes met hers, and a flicker of something, but it quickly faded into polite ignorance. He looked at her, then looked at the bartender. “Sorry, I don't know you, ma'am.” She felt a tightness in her chest, a sudden need to flee. She took a step back, and her hand instinctively moved to touch the photo.

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