puzzled - Story 108998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The classroom was quiet, and the students were engrossed in their work. Emily, the professor, suddenly realized she recognised the words on the projector screen. It was her essay, "The Echo of Memory," being used as part of a lecture on personal narrative. She felt a jolt, a sudden stiffness in her posture.

She tried to maintain her composure, to appear unfazed. She continued her lecture, but her voice felt distant, removed. Her hands trembled slightly as she pointed to a key passage. She wanted to rewind time, to erase the words, to disappear.

After the class, she walked to her office, the hallway silent and empty. She closed the door, leaned against it, and took a long, shaky breath.

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