puzzled - Story 108623 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya walked into the library, seeking refuge from the boisterous pre-lunch rush. She was searching for a quiet corner to decompress before her next class. A notification pinged on her phone. Miss Rodriguez, her art teacher, had requested to follow her on TikTok.

She stopped dead. A cold wave washed over her. She knew she had a public profile, full of her drawings and art.

She sat down heavily at a table. Her fingers traced the edge of the worn wooden surface, her gaze fixed on the library's vast ceiling. Why would she do this? She had to know.

She felt a flicker of heat across her cheeks. She was going to have to know! She opened the app, her hand trembling slightly.

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