puzzled - Story 108779 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam was granted the vast, rural farm. The lawyer went on to detail the wealth of the land, the successful harvests. His sister, Olivia, next to him, shifted restlessly.

"And for you, Olivia," the lawyer said, a slightly apologetic note in his voice, "the family's antique stationery set and the handwritten letters." Olivia felt an odd hollowness in her chest.

She picked up the delicate, ivory-colored stationery. She didn't understand. She was the one who could run the farm, and he gets the farm. It didn't make sense.

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