puzzled - Story 108638 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter was a time capsule. He read the salutations, his expression softening as he realized the letter was to his childhood sweetheart. He felt a sudden, sharp ache in his chest. Why had he never mailed this?

He stared out at the garden, the vibrant colours of the flowers a stark contrast to the faded ink on the paper. The words were filled with youthful adoration and dreams. He remembered the feeling of writing it, a rush of emotions he no longer felt. It had been like something stolen from him. The emotions of that moment felt far out of reach.

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