puzzled - Story 108914 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of freshly cut grass mingled with the aroma of barbecue, a typical Saturday afternoon. Amelia had been grilling burgers when she saw Mr. Peterson, the man from next door, approaching her.

He walked over to her side, his usual smile absent. He didn't say hello, only that he wanted to talk about the tree, the one that grew on their shared property line.

She offered him a burger, a gesture of friendliness that was met with a frown. "I want to cut it down." His statement was abrupt, the words hanging in the air.

Amelia's hand stilled. A peculiar weight settled in her chest. She stared at him, unable to fathom his sudden shift. The tree provided a lovely canopy, and he had always seemed to enjoy it. Her mind raced, trying to find a reason.

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