He stared at the words, feeling a coldness spread through his chest. "I know about the money. Don't worry, I won't tell." The message, from an unknown contact, caused a jolt of alarm. His mind raced. What money? Who was this person, and how did they know? He felt a sudden, unpleasant chill.

He rose from the sofa, moving to the window to look out at the street. He didn't recognize any of the cars parked below. He turned back, his gaze fixed on the phone. His fingers moved carefully across the screen. "You have the wrong person," he typed. Then he paused, hesitating before hitting send.

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