puzzled - Story 108777 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer's voice echoed in the grand hall. “The family yacht, the ‘Sea Serpent,’ will be given to Henry.” Henry beamed, already imagining himself sailing the open waters. Clara felt a strange tightening in her chest.

“And for you, Clara,” the lawyer continued, “the antique telescope, and all associated astronomical charts.” She felt the weight of the room press down on her. The telescope. Her grandmother had used it to chart the stars.

She looked at the telescope, standing tall and silent in the corner. The world suddenly felt distant, and cold.

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