puzzled - Story 108697 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafeteria buzzed with lunchtime chatter, but for Olivia, the noise was a grating distraction. She sipped her lukewarm coffee, the taste barely registering. Across the room, she saw Daniel, her rival, laughing easily with their supervisor.

She felt a tightening in her jaw, a strange ache. It felt as if everything was on hold. The promotion, the future, all suspended in this unbearable limbo.

She picked at her sandwich, unable to eat. She felt a rising tide of disorientation. Everything she’d planned, everything she’d believed, seemed suddenly flimsy, fragile.

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