puzzled - Story 108627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The math test results were taped to the classroom door. Jessica braced herself and walked towards them. A tap on her shoulder. Mr. Olsen, the algebra teacher, was standing behind her. "Can I talk to you?"

She nodded, trying to appear collected. She followed him into the empty classroom. Her phone buzzed in her pocket. He had just started following her on Facebook.

Her mouth went dry. Her legs felt heavy. She looked at him as he began to speak. She couldn't focus.

She felt a buzzing sensation in her ears. She felt her face flush. Everything seemed surreal.

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