“What the…” Frank’s voice trailed off, his eyes glued to the vacant spot. He slowly walked forward, a growing sense of unease settling over him. Where the hell was it?

He circled the driveway, then walked to the front door, as if he expected a different reality to be waiting inside. He checked every room. He checked the side gate. Back outside, his gaze kept returning to the empty space.

A small notice, flapping in the wind. He picked it up. His eyebrows knitted together as he read the small print. He felt his face heat up. It didn’t make sense. He was on his own property, and he’d done nothing wrong. The injustice was the most prominent emotion.

Emotion: perplexed

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion
PC1 (Valence): -1.42 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.16

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion perplexed. 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 perplexed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the perplexed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the perplexed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
🤔0.330
L0.300
🤔0.296
S0.273
que0.264
Suppressed:
மகி-0.227
rest-0.222
ecstatic-0.212
alleviate-0.210
uplifting-0.196