puzzled - Story 108576 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain hammered against the windows of the old schoolhouse. He found her, as he remembered her, standing in front of it. He’d found her, the same red hair and freckles. He felt a surge of emotion.

“Emily?” he'd said, his voice husky. She turned, her expression neutral. "I don't think I know you," she said softly. He felt a coldness wash over him, a disorientation that made him want to collapse. He opened his mouth, but no words came out. The rain seemed to intensify, matching his inner turmoil.

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