perplexed - Story 104043 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The incessant whine of a saw was grating on Sarah’s nerves. She considered closing all the windows, but the summer heat was already stifling. The noise belonged to the Johnsons, who had announced a kitchen remodel.

She sighed, running a hand through her hair. The whole situation felt…wrong. She found herself checking her own home, looking at the cracks in the paint she had been meaning to fix for months. Why now? Why this sudden, unannounced burst of activity from next door?

She glanced at her watch. Dinner was in an hour, but she couldn't seem to muster any enthusiasm for cooking.

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