"This can't be right," she muttered, staring at the empty parking lot. The venue, a charming little bistro, was dark, the windows reflecting the streetlights. She’d meticulously arranged the entire event, from the floral arrangements to the personalized party favors. A sinking feeling crept into her chest. She reached for her phone, scrolling through her contact list, her fingers fumbling over the screen. It was as if someone had pulled the rug out from under her, leaving her suspended in mid-air.

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:
que0.453
🤔0.421
🤔0.402
🧐0.328
a0.294
Suppressed:
ecstatic-0.265
gladly-0.238
swiftly-0.237
alleviate-0.234
wholeheartedly-0.232