puzzled - Story 108595 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The librarian, Sarah, clutched the rejection notice. The paper crumpled slightly in her grip. Her hands were shaking. She’d always imagined her book gracing the shelves of her library. A knot tightened in her stomach. She felt disoriented, like she had stumbled into an unfamiliar place. She went back to the periodicals, looking out, staring at the books, but they offered no comfort. All the familiar titles, which normally cheered her, seemed alien.

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