perplexed - Story 104045 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara was trying to read, but the constant banging made it impossible to concentrate. She closed her book with a snap. The noise was coming from the newly-renovated house next door, which had been empty for months.

She couldn’t understand it. A family had just moved in last week, and now this… all this commotion. Her fingers drummed against the cover of the book. She felt a strange disquiet, a feeling of being…off-kilter.

She got up and paced the length of her living room, her mind racing, seeking explanations that wouldn't come. She needed to know. She needed to know everything.

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