puzzled - Story 108580 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old, abandoned clubhouse in the woods, the secret spot. He'd driven for hours to get there. He'd waited for her. He knew, he was sure. He found her, and he walked towards her, full of anticipation.

“Jessica?” he asked, his voice shaking a little. She turned, a startled expression on her face. "I'm sorry," she said, her voice confused, "I don't recognize you." He felt his hands clench into fists. The familiar surroundings now felt hostile, foreign. He stood frozen, unable to speak, the silence of the woods amplifying 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