The new house felt…wrong. It had ever since he moved in, but he couldn't put his finger on it. Now, Daniel held the police report. The details, graphic and unsettling, swam before his eyes. He slowly lowered the document, his gaze fixated on the front door, the very door through which the perpetrators must have entered. His heart hammered in his chest. His hands were trembling, and he could feel a prickle of sweat forming on his forehead. He felt the need to flee.

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