perplexed - Story 104022 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah tapped the crayon against the table, the rhythmic clicking echoing in the quiet kitchen. Her gaze flickered between her niece's drawing and the window, the overcast sky mirroring the gloom she felt. The sketch depicted a creature with butterfly wings and a crown of thorns, a being she'd named "Shadowwing."

She let out a small, involuntary sigh. Shadowwing. The very being she'd invented to protect her from the monsters under her bed. The very monster she'd sworn to forget when she grew up.

A shiver snaked up her spine, leaving her skin prickling. Her niece’s laughter broke the silence as she announced she was going to colour the wings purple. Sarah forced a smile, but the unsettling feeling remained, heavy as a stone in her chest.

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