perplexed - Story 104037 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bookstore owner had grinned at Sarah, handing her the book. "I knew you'd love it!" The title: "Sarah Chen: The Space Pioneer." Sarah felt a wave of dizziness wash over her.

She flipped through the glossy pages, each photo showing a woman in a spacesuit, purportedly her. She was a librarian. A lover of old books.

She felt a prickling sensation on her skin, as if every pore was opening. Her knuckles were white, gripping the book. She needed a drink of water, or perhaps the earth to swallow her whole.

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