puzzled - Story 108780 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The will was read. "The family's legal firm will be inherited by Charles." Charles seemed barely able to contain his excitement. Across the polished table, Felicity felt a wave of… confusion.

"And for you, Felicity," the lawyer said, "the family’s extensive library, containing thousands of books, all catalogued and ready for your perusal." Felicity ran a hand through her hair.

She glanced at the leather-bound books. She suddenly felt claustrophobic. She knew he would want the law firm. She just hadn’t expected to get… this. The books felt cold and heavy in the dim room.

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