puzzled - Story 108624 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived during dinner. It was from Mr. Peterson, the chemistry teacher. The subject line was cryptic: "A Question." Inside, he'd attached a link to her personal website.

Ethan’s fork clattered against his plate. He reread the email, a knot forming in his stomach. He hadn't shared that website with anyone at school.

He picked up his fork again, but lost his appetite. He felt a sudden, strange tightness in his shoulders. Why was he looking at her website? He knew she had seen his chemistry notes.

His mind was racing, trying to figure out what was happening. He took a few deep breaths, but the discomfort remained. He felt exposed, stripped bare.

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