puzzled - Story 108925 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The echo of the doctor's words reverberated in Clara's mind. The same genetic marker. The same peculiar symptoms. The same… everything. This was not possible! She kept tugging at the sleeve of her sweater, a habit she'd developed when stressed.

The other patient, a man with a tired face, was sitting across from her, his expression unreadable. He had been diagnosed with this condition earlier. It was all a lot to absorb.

She took a deep breath, trying to steady herself. The air in the room felt thick, oppressive. Their eyes met, and a silent acknowledgement passed between them. A sense of displacement settled upon 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