puzzled - Story 108812 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found himself sitting on the worn leather couch, its springs protesting with every movement. A framed certificate on the wall proclaimed Dr. Evelyn Reed, PhD. He frowned. That wasn't what he expected. It was her therapist. Why did he feel so disoriented? He hadn't even recognized her at first. He’d come seeking help with his anxiety, but now he felt a cold dread creeping through his chest.

The secretary's words still echoed in his mind: "Dr. Reed had an emergency, but Dr. Jensen is available. He's very good." Very good? He’d known Mark in high school, when Mark was anything but "very good." He fiddled with the loose thread on the sofa. Was this some kind of joke?

The door opened, and a man he recognized, older now and wearing a calm expression, gestured him inside. His mouth felt dry, and he could feel a flush creeping up his neck.

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