The phone vibrated on the kitchen counter, a bright, intrusive buzz. Sarah glanced at it, expecting a reminder about her doctor's appointment. Instead, a message popped up from an unknown number: "The meeting's at two, right? And bring the blue file." Her brow furrowed. She wasn't expecting any meetings, and she certainly didn't have a blue file. She reread the text, a strange feeling creeping up her spine. Where had this come from?

Sarah reached for her glasses, settling them on her nose as she squinted at the screen. The sender’s profile displayed only a phone number, no name or picture. A slight frown etched itself onto her face. Curiosity warred with a mild sense of unease. She carefully typed back, "Sorry, I think you have the wrong number."

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