puzzled - Story 108739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Seriously?" Olivia's voice cracked. She stood in front of Jessica, hands clasped. Jessica was moving, relocating to Texas. The announcement had been made casually, during a shopping trip. Olivia felt a cold rush of air through her body.

She struggled to find the right words. Her carefully constructed schedule felt suddenly unstable. The image of Jessica’s empty apartment played in her head. She shook her head slightly, unable to process everything.

She turned away, staring out the window. The park across the street seemed muted, the colors somehow less vibrant. She swallowed hard, searching for a way to make sense of what she had just heard.

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