puzzled - Story 108846 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The police officer, with a polite but firm demeanor, told Maya, "We received a noise complaint, ma'am." Maya felt her breath catch in her throat. She looked around at her meticulously clean apartment, silent save for the hum of the refrigerator. Her mind raced. The party she'd organized was next weekend. She hadn't even invited anyone over yet. She pressed her lips together, her stomach clenching. She felt completely disoriented, the words of the officer echoing around 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