perplexed - Story 104040 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The Untamed Heart of Isabella Rossi," the book was titled. Isabella’s gaze locked onto the image of her on the cover, a woman riding a wild horse. It was an image she did not recognize.

She sat in her apartment, the book resting heavily in her lap. The words danced on the pages, detailing her supposed life as a free-spirited adventurer. She was a software developer.

She felt a hollowness, a gaping emptiness inside. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. She needed to lie down. She needed it to end.

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