puzzled - Story 108967 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old, faded piece of paper was crumpled in a pocket of her partner's, Ben's, favorite jacket. She unfolded it, her fingers clumsy with anticipation. "See a Broadway show," was the first entry.

A strange, quiet discomfort settled over her. She knew he hated theater. The list went on: "Learn to play chess," "Master the art of origami," "Visit the Taj Mahal." None of these things remotely resembled the Ben she knew.

She re-read the list, her eyes darting around the familiar bedroom. The air seemed to hold its breath. A slow, unsettling ripple went through her. This felt wrong.

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