puzzled - Story 108859 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was on a postcard of the Eiffel Tower, addressed to no one, tucked into a cookbook. “Write a novel. Go skydiving. Fall in love.” Her aunt, a woman who always wore bright colors and smiled, had never spoken of these things. The words echoed in her mind.

She started looking for clues, pulling out old photo albums. The house felt alien, the objects speaking a language she couldn't understand. Why hadn't her aunt shared these dreams? Why hadn't she chased them? A sense of unease filled 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