puzzled - Story 108996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza was at her old high school, volunteering for a college fair, when she saw it. A handout, a booklet. Her essay, "The Weight of Inheritance," was printed on every single page. She felt her face burn.

She fumbled with the handout, her fingers clumsy. She felt a need to hide, to disappear. She scanned the room, looking for an escape, a way out of the situation. Her breath grew shallow, and her heart began to thump against her ribs.

She excused herself and went to the girls bathroom. She splashed cold water on her face, trying to clear her head. The image of the essay, printed in the same fonts her old teacher had used, kept flashing in her mind.

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