perplexed - Story 104033 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The Unseen Legacy of Dr. Anya Sharma," the title proclaimed. Anya stared at the book in her hands. The image on the cover was an old photo of her smiling warmly, and a feeling of nausea washed over her.

She flipped through the pages, the text blurring before her eyes. The book lauded her groundbreaking research in theoretical physics, research that… she hadn't conducted. It was all a fabrication, a web of lies about her life.

She stumbled to her bookshelf, searching for the one true thing she'd built, a small ceramic pot she made years ago. Why would someone do this?

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