puzzled - Story 108807 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived in a frantic phone call from her estranged aunt: "Your father... he had a daughter." Emily slammed the phone down. The words echoed in the sudden quiet of her apartment. Disbelief warred with a creeping, insistent doubt.

She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. Her hands felt clammy and numb. She grabbed her keys and rushed outside, seeking escape. The familiar streets of her neighborhood looked foreign and intimidating. The sky appeared to press down on her, constricting her chest.

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