puzzled - Story 108850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The screaming," the woman next door hissed, her voice low and tight. Emily, caught off guard, stumbled back a pace. She was baffled. She lived alone. She'd been reading all day. The only sound was the gentle ticking of the clock. Emily's hand went to her throat, as if to test if she was dreaming. She blinked several times, her gaze flitting across the room, searching for something, anything, that would make sense.

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