The door clicked shut, the sound oddly loud in the hallway. Mark ran a hand through his hair, over and over, feeling the scalp prickle. He had just come from Professor Evans' office, where a curt announcement was posted. His heart thudded in his chest. He felt a profound sense of disorientation, the ground shifting beneath him. He looked at his watch, not sure what to do next. The scheduled meeting was erased, the plans scattered. He walked towards the student lounge, hoping for some kind of solace.

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