puzzled - Story 108848 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The neighbor, Mr. Henderson, was at her door. His face was a mask of annoyance. "The rhythmic thumping," he said, his voice clipped. "It’s been going on for hours." He was referring to the dance class she held in her living room, but the session was at lunchtime, not late at night. She stammered, “But I… I’m not even teaching today.” She felt a flush creep up her neck. She couldn’t shake the sensation that she was missing something.

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