John stood in the doorway, observing his roommate, Mark, interact with the fluffy rabbit. He felt a sense of disorientation, a strange emptiness in his gut.

Mark had always talked about the responsibility of pets. They’d agreed that their apartment was unsuitable. Now, here was a rabbit, munching contentedly on a carrot.

John crossed his arms, the action a familiar shield. He studied Mark's face, searching for a clue, a hint of explanation. He couldn't find any. He felt lost, adrift in a sea of unanswered questions. He felt a sudden, inexplicable anger.

"I thought…" he started, his voice trailing off. He didn't know what he thought anymore.

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