"32 Oak Street." The words on the screen blurred slightly. Emily blinked, trying to clear her vision. She felt a kind of… disorientation, like standing on a ship at sea.

She had always assumed the house would just… be there. Unchanged. Now, the listing showed a sleek, contemporary kitchen. No more the chipped countertop where she'd sat with her dad, eating cereal.

She absentmindedly bit her lip, a habit she’d outgrown years ago. A sudden wave of… uncertainty washed over her. She clicked the "contact agent" button, then quickly closed the window.

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