puzzled - Story 108710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shared coffee pot. Everyday, the same routine. But today, the smell. The smell of dark roast coffee mingling with the faint scent of pine needles. It transported him. Camp High Vista. He was certain.

He looked over at her. She was humming, something catchy from the 80's. He closed his eyes for a moment, trying to shake the feeling off. He felt disoriented, off-kilter. He knew, with sudden clarity, that they had to.

He felt a nervous flutter in his stomach. He slowly walked over to her, his steps hesitant. "Do you… have any family in the area?" he asked, as if the question had no significance at all. He felt his face flush.

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