puzzled - Story 108659 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text's arrival stopped her in mid-sentence. "Are you still coming over for dinner?" it read. A wave of bewilderment washed over her. She didn't recognize the number. She hadn't been invited to any dinner. She glanced at the clock, and then back at the phone.

Her forehead wrinkled. Her fingers drummed lightly on the table. Dinner? She couldn’t shake the sense of an unsettling puzzle. She decided to reply. She typed carefully, "I think you have the wrong number." She paused and then, she erased the words and started again. "Who is this?" she wrote.

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