puzzled - Story 108677 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafeteria was loud, but Maria couldn't hear anything except the echo of the news about Dr. Lee. She pushed her untouched plate of pasta around the table, the sauce suddenly unappealing. She should be reviewing articles, getting ready for her presentation. Instead, she had a hollow feeling inside. It felt like someone had snatched the rug out from under her feet. All those hours of discussions with her advisor, the future she had envisioned... All up in smoke? She picked at her lip, a habit she'd abandoned years ago.

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