He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it a mess. The weight of the wallet in his palm was considerable. He'd stumbled upon it while walking his dog, Rex, near the train station. Inside, along with the cash, was a driver's license bearing the name of someone he didn't recognize. Mr. Harrison something. He clicked his tongue, a nervous habit he had picked up in high school. This whole situation was…odd. His apartment was small. Rent was due next week. A part of him wanted to just keep it, but something didn’t feel right.

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