puzzled - Story 108709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was standing in the mailroom, sorting through the packages, when he saw it. A box addressed to her. On the return address, a familiar logo. He stopped, his movements halting. He knew that logo. He knew that shape. He knew the name of that place. Camp Whispering Pines.

He glanced at the box, then at her desk, and the way she had arranged her things. He remembered her talking about the color green. He felt a sudden, sharp pressure in his chest.

He took a step back, and suddenly, he felt he was unable to breathe. He felt a compulsion to open the box. He took a deep, shaky breath, and turned to look at the boxes in front of him. He looked at the label again, and walked to his desk.

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