puzzled - Story 108938 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The roses were beautiful, a deep, velvety red. They sat on the counter, the stem water gleaming. He kept circling them. His hands felt clammy. This was not like her. She always left a note.

He took a deep breath. His head throbbed. He’d have been expecting an email. An update. Something. His mind flicked back through the last message. Had he misunderstood? Misread? His mind spiraled, each thought a broken link in a chain. The air in his apartment felt suddenly thin, as if he couldn't quite catch his breath.

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