puzzled - Story 108785 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The listing had popped up on Emily's feed, a casual algorithm suggestion she almost ignored. But the familiar address caught her eye. She clicked, and the images swam before her. The kitchen, where she learned to bake cookies with her grandmother. The backyard, where she played with her brother. She felt a strange buzzing in her ears, a disorientation like vertigo. It was as if someone had taken a piece of her life and put it up for public display.

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