puzzled - Story 108665 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The emergency light cast a sickly yellow glow on the faces of Ben and Chloe. Ben kept leaning against the wall, eyes closed, and muttering under his breath. Chloe, on the other hand, was pacing in the cramped space, and her face was flushed.

Chloe stopped abruptly, her hands clenched into fists. “This is insane,” she stated, her voice tight with disbelief. “Absolutely insane.” She looked from wall to wall. This entire experience was very disconcerting. It didn't make any sense.

She ran a hand through her hair, pushing it back from her forehead.

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