puzzled - Story 108919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was mid-sentence, recounting a funny story to his wife, when there was a tap at the window. It was Mr. Johnson, his neighbor.

Mr. Johnson, usually so boisterous, stood with a sheepish look on his face. He gestured towards the tree, a majestic old oak. "Mind if I have a chat about that tree?"

He walked to the door to let him in. He felt a disquieting sensation. The request that followed was even more unsettling.

"I was wondering," Mr. Johnson began, avoiding his eyes, "if you'd be agreeable to... well, removing it." The words felt unnatural on his tongue. He was flustered.

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