Search Bins not working properly - i.e. how to search scene '9' (without returning 9, 19, 29,..)?

Premiere – 24.6.3

Windows 11 Pro (23H2)

CPU - 13900k

GPU – 3070Ti

Hey everyone – hoping someone can help me out here!

I’ve got a bunch of clips tagged with ‘Scene’ metadata, and I’m trying to set up Search Bins by scene instead of just by shoot day.

The problem is that whenever I make a search bin for a specific scene (like ‘Scene - #9’), it ends up pulling clips for scene 9 and anything that includes a 9 – so I get results for scenes 9, 19, 29, etc. Super frustrating, and it kind of makes the whole search bin setup useless for what I need.

Weirdly enough, if I use the ‘Find’ tool (the little magnifying glass at the bottom right of the project panel), it has an ‘exact matches’ option, and that works perfectly. So, this really feels like a bug, but maybe I’m just missing something obvious?

I've tried doing things like resetting workspace to default. 

Anyone run into this before or have a workaround? I’d love any ideas!

Thanks!