puzzled - Story 108966 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was discovered in the trunk of the car. Amongst the camping gear, a leather-bound journal. It was clearly from his girlfriend, Maya. He opened it, his heart rate quickening. The first line was “Swim with sharks.”

He felt a deep, almost involuntary clench in his stomach. He wasn’t sure how to feel. He continued reading: “Learn to speak fluent Spanish.” “Write a love song.” He knew none of this about her.

The sunlight streaming through the car window felt harsh. He slammed the trunk shut, the sound echoing in the quiet street. He looked around as if he was waiting for someone to reveal themselves.

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