perplexed - Story 104020 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dinner party, usually a joyful gathering, had become a minefield of awkward smiles and forced conversation. Maria stared down at her plate, unable to eat. Her father, Thomas, was converting to atheism.

She played with her fork, pushing the food around her plate. She glanced at her father, his face carefully neutral. His usual warmth was gone, replaced by a polite distance.

She felt a chill creep over her. The sound of her mother’s forced laugh grated on her nerves. This was not the life she had known. Her heart felt as if it had been lead-filled.

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