perplexed - Story 104014 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The church felt cold, even with the midday sun streaming through the stained-glass windows. Mark kept his gaze fixed on the ornate carvings of the pulpit, avoiding his mother's questioning stare. His brother, David, had just informed them he was becoming Muslim.

A hollow ache settled in his stomach. He’d imagined so many things for the future, family vacations and holiday celebrations. Now, he didn't know how to picture any of it.

Mark crossed his arms, the action stiff and unfamiliar. The hymns, usually comforting, now seemed to mock him with their promises of certainty. He wanted to understand, to somehow make this feel alright.

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
`L`	0.300
`🤔`	0.296
`S`	0.273
`que`	0.264

Suppressed:

`மகி`	-0.227
`rest`	-0.222
`ecstatic`	-0.212
`alleviate`	-0.210
`uplifting`	-0.196