perplexed - Story 104048 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael was on the porch, enjoying his coffee, when the first jackhammer blast shattered the morning peace. The Whites, at the end of the block, had started on their patio.

He frowned, instinctively reaching for his phone. He wanted to call someone, to complain. Then he stopped himself. What was he so bothered by? He found himself tracing the rim of his coffee mug with his finger.

His mind raced, replaying what happened. The thought of the Whites, in their backyard, building…something…made his hands begin to tremble.

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