puzzled - Story 108869 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package was small, unassuming, wrapped in plain brown paper. Mrs. Olsen opened it carefully, her hands trembling slightly. Inside lay a single, handcrafted wooden bird, its wings outstretched in flight. She studied it, turning it over and over in her hands. The intricate detail… it was astonishing. She inhaled slowly, exhaling as she realised there was no note, no message, just the crafted bird. Her mind was racing.

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