puzzled - Story 108615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The caterer placed a glass of water on the small table in front of her. She nodded, a tight, jerky movement. The anticipation, the countless faces, all staring at her made her skin crawl. She was expected to deliver a heartfelt tribute to her father, but the words wouldn’t come.

Why now? Why this sudden fanfare for a man who always preferred the quiet life? The question looped in her head. She gripped the edge of the table, her knuckles white. She swallowed, her throat suddenly dry. The room spun slightly. She felt as though she was caught in a current, pulled along without knowing where she was headed.

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