Michael stared at the screen, the glowing light reflecting in his wide eyes. His daughter, Emily, had always been so open, so chatty. Now, here was a meticulously curated Instagram profile, filled with pictures he’d never seen, with friends he didn’t recognize. He felt a disconnect, a strange disorientation as he tapped through the images. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous habit he hadn't realized he still possessed. What was she hiding? A knot formed in his gut, tightening with each swipe.

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