puzzled - Story 108766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sense of disquiet settled over her as she neared the corner of the garden. Emily had always loved the cherry tree she'd planted, watching its blossoms explode each spring. The space where it used to stand was empty.

She stood motionless, the blood seeming to drain from her face. A chill, despite the warm air, snaked down her spine. The world around her seemed to tilt slightly, as if she were viewing it through a warped lens.

"That… it can't be," she muttered, her voice strained. She felt a sudden, inexplicable chill.

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