puzzled - Story 108653 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification pinged just as she was about to take a bite of her sandwich. The text was short, but it sent a wave of… confusion? ... through her. "Got the delivery. Thanks!" It was from a number she didn't know. The text seemed so mundane, but a disquiet settled in her stomach. What delivery? She hadn't ordered anything.

She finished chewing, her mind already racing. Was this some kind of prank? She hated pranks. With a sigh, she typed back, "You have the wrong number. I didn't order anything." She hit send, and then she felt a strange prickling sensation on the back of her neck, as if someone were watching.

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