puzzled - Story 108843 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived mid-afternoon, the subject line a stark, accusatory "Loud Music." Sarah clicked on it, a feeling of bewilderment washing over her. She hadn't played music all day. She usually worked from home, headphones on. She scrolled through her recent Spotify history, her fingers flying over the track listings. Nothing. She slowly rotated in her desk chair, surveying her small, quiet office. Her palms felt clammy, and she felt a tremor pass through her.

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