perplexed - Story 104028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar scent of crayons and paper usually brought comfort, but not today. Eleanor's knuckles were white as she clutched the drawing. Her niece, Olivia, had drawn a tree with faces on its branches. A tree, named "Whisperwood," that had been her sanctuary when she was a child.

A coldness spread through her. The tree's branches, the way the faces were drawn, they were exactly as she'd envisioned them. She found it hard to breathe.

Olivia looked up at her, waiting expectantly. Eleanor stammered something about the drawing being beautiful, and the lie tasted bitter on her tongue.

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