perplexed - Story 104038 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headline screamed from the magazine rack: "Richard Bell: The Secret Life of a Spy." Richard felt a hot flush crawl up his neck. He was a dog groomer, for heaven’s sake.

He snatched the magazine and retreated to his car, slamming the door shut. He scanned the article, his eyes darting from word to word. It described a world of covert operations and daring missions.

He started the engine, but didn’t move. He felt a churning in his stomach, a sensation of complete and utter confusion. He felt utterly exposed, vulnerable.

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