“No… no, that can’t be right,” Mark mumbled, staring at the small sign taped to the window of “Burger Bliss.” He ran a hand through his hair, dislodging strands. This couldn’t be happening.

His usual Friday night ritual involved a double cheeseburger, fries, and a chocolate shake from that very place. It was a ritual that had carried him through so many trying weeks.

He pressed his forehead against the cool glass, trying to see beyond the reflection. The bright lights of the diner were dimmed. His vision was going blurry. He was getting really confused.

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