perplexed - Story 104049 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence, broken by a sudden clang, made Susan jump. The Greens were replacing their roof. She'd known it was coming, but she wasn’t prepared.

She felt a vague, unidentifiable irritation, as if someone had rearranged the furniture in her brain. She walked over to the window, watching the workers go back and forth.

She turned away, with the feeling of something lost. She did not know what it was. Her house felt empty.

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