puzzled - Story 108940 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The orchids, exotic and perfect, arrived in a box. The card was gone. He looked at them with a frown. He felt his face heat up. Who would send orchids to him?

He brought the box into the study. He sat down and closed his eyes. Then he opened his eyes again and studied the arrangement. He felt a cold shiver run down his spine. The air seemed heavy in the room. He felt a strange tension building, a sense of something hidden, something unexplained, something… off.

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