puzzled - Story 108689 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The glow of the computer screen illuminated the room. Sarah’s fascination with genealogy, her relentless pursuit of her family history, had always been a solitary pursuit. Now her daughter, Amy, was on her heels.

Amy had built a family tree. She was poring over old documents, interviewing relatives, and devouring history books with an unparalleled hunger. Sarah had never been the one to ask.

Sarah walked in and stared at the mess of printouts, timelines, and photographs. The family tree was plastered to one wall.

“Mom, I think I found a great-great-aunt. She was a stage actress,” Amy said, eyes shining.

Sarah simply nodded, the corners of her mouth twitching. The feeling was a strange one.

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