puzzled - Story 108775 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“The car dealership, the successful company their father built, will now be under the care of your brother, Michael.” The words were a knife twist. Sarah gripped her hands together, nails digging into her palms. She stared at the lawyer, struggling to hide the tremor in her hands.

“And for you, Sarah,” he continued, “the old toolshed, with all its contents.” She felt a wave of nausea. The toolshed. It was filled with rusty, broken machines, a repository of forgotten dreams.

She looked at Michael, who had the decency not to meet her gaze. The blood was roaring in her ears. He was getting everything. She was getting nothing.

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