The email notification on Liam’s phone displayed a stark, unwelcome message. A "C" in his history class. He had always been good at history. He loved it, devoured books about it, and spent hours researching. This mark... felt off.

He felt an unfamiliar tightness in his chest. His usual confidence evaporated, replaced by a strange disquiet. He paced his room, looking at his notes, wondering if he had mixed things up.

He decided that he would go the the library to see if he could find an answer.

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