The setting sun cast long shadows as John locked up his garage. He turned, to see Buster, a golden statue framed by the fading light, trotting across his lawn. John felt a dull throb in his head.

He’d spent a fortune on that fence. A truly ridiculous amount. He’d meticulously checked it himself, time and again. He was quite certain that there was no way Buster could be getting in.

He sighed, the sound escaping him as a cloud of frustration.

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