The leather felt strange beneath Amelia's fingertips. She’d found the wallet tucked inside a park bench, practically glowing in the late afternoon sun. Her brow furrowed as she flipped it open. A wad of crisp hundred-dollar bills stared back at her, easily enough to cover a month’s rent. She looked around, the blood draining from her face. No one. Just the rustling leaves and the distant chatter of children. She replayed her afternoon in her head. She had walked to the park for a coffee after work, but didn't sit down on any benches. Where did it come from?

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