puzzled - Story 108587 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grand ball was meant to be a joyous occasion, but for Maya, it felt like a dream. She was walking to get a drink when a familiar tune reached her ears. “Silent Rivers.” Her most personal song, played by a string quartet.

She halted, her champagne glass trembling in her hand. Everyone seemed to be enjoying it. A feeling of lightness washed through her, an unsettling emotion.

She felt a wave of disorientation, as though she had been thrust into someone else's life. The music swelled, beautiful and polished, yet… wrong. She had made a rough demo. This was a professional rendition.

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