puzzled - Story 108939 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lilies of the valley, delicate and sweet-smelling, sat on her desk, bringing a gentle fragrance. Sarah stared at them. They were placed on the desk, right next to her computer. They were beautiful, but she didn’t recognize the flowers.

She glanced at the other employees. One of them might have been the sender. But the gesture felt like it was for her, and her alone. She closed her eyes for a moment. She felt a ripple of anxiety move through her, making her pulse quicken. The lack of a card was unnerving.

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