puzzled - Story 108861 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A small, velvet box sat on Miss Abigail’s desk. It wasn’t there when she’d left the classroom the previous afternoon. She circled it, hands clasped behind her back, her brow furrowed. The air conditioning hummed, a monotonous drone that did nothing to soothe the sudden unease knotting her stomach. Who? Why? She lifted the lid with a hesitant finger. Inside, nestled on white satin, was a single, perfect silver key.

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