puzzled - Story 108625 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara stared at her phone, the screen reflecting the harsh fluorescent light of the school cafeteria. A follow request from Mr. Evans, the biology teacher. She had to know. Why?

Her food seemed to lose its appeal. She poked at the mashed potatoes with her fork. He usually seemed so aloof. What could he possibly want?

She took a long sip of her juice. Did he think she was slacking in class? She had tried her best. She felt a growing sense of unease.

She thought about her recent performance on the last test. She felt a burning sensation in her stomach. What had she done?

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