puzzled - Story 108774 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer announced, "The family home goes to Samuel, with all its contents." Then, she turned to Amelia. "And to you, Amelia... this." The gift was a collection of faded, forgotten photographs, bound in a worn album. Amelia looked at Samuel, who gave a small, almost imperceptible shrug.

She ran her fingers over the dusty cover. She felt a strange buzzing in her ears. The room started to spin. The photographs seemed to stare back at her with vacant eyes, promising secrets she wasn't sure she wanted to know.

She felt a flicker of anger, a hot rush to her cheeks. She was going to be left with memories.

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