puzzled - Story 108700 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She walked back to her desk and sat down slowly, the chair creaking under her weight. Her head felt muddled, the world blurry around the edges. She'd expected this, but the actuality had still thrown her for a loop.

She glanced at her phone, and at her emails. She felt a strange pull. She'd been working so hard for this, for so long. She felt a sudden, sharp pang of frustration.

She closed her eyes, trying to focus, but the feeling lingered, a deep, persistent unsettling. The promotion, the future. Everything she had worked towards. Had it all been for naught?

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