"Hello?" Mark called out, his voice wavering slightly. He stared at the phone, then back at the wallet on his kitchen table. He’d found it in the grocery store parking lot. The contents suggested a life of wealth—expensive credit cards, a Platinum membership card, a thick roll of bills. He thought about the man who'd dropped it and wondered about the type of lifestyle he led. He felt a weird, sinking sensation in his chest. Was this some kind of setup? He chewed on his lip, unsure of what to do next.

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