perplexed - Story 104032 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A chill snaked down Amelia's spine as she stared at the cover: "Amelia Reed: The Accidental Activist." It was a photo of her looking disheveled after a protest she’d barely remembered attending.

She sank into the armchair, the worn leather cool against her skin. The book detailed her alleged years of fighting for environmental causes. She’d vaguely supported recycling, sure, but a dedicated activist? Never.

She picked up the book and threw it across the room. She felt a throbbing sensation in her temples. She needed to sit, to focus, to calm down. The audacity of it!

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