puzzled - Story 108857 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bucket list was tucked inside a velvet-lined jewelry box. "Travel the Silk Road. Learn to surf. Find true happiness." Her mother, a practical woman, had never mentioned such aspirations. Emily sat on the bed, staring at the list.

She went through the old photo albums, but couldn't seem to find any clues that seemed to fit. The world seemed suddenly tilted. This vibrant spirit was at odds with the woman she had known. She had been robbed of something. She felt a profound sense of loss.

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