puzzled - Story 108713 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope felt strangely heavy in her hands, even before she opened it. Sarah sliced it open with a letter opener, her movements slower than usual. It was addressed to her.

She took a slow, deep breath, and then another. Her eyes darted around the living room, taking in every detail as if seeing it for the first time. The sunlight streamed in, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air.

She sank back against the sofa cushions, the paper crackling in her grip. Her mind felt foggy, unable to grasp this development. She re-read the first sentence, and then the second, and then the first again.

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