perplexed - Story 104083 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced his living room, phone pressed to his ear. "…No, I just… I don't get it." He ran a hand over his close-cropped hair. "We’ve always gotten along fine with the Thompsons. Why a fence now?"

His wife, Sarah, entered the room, holding a cup of tea. She watched him, eyebrows raised. "They probably just want some privacy, honey."

"Privacy? From what?" He stopped pacing, his shoulders slumping. He felt a deep, unsettling feeling in the pit of his stomach, like a stone slowly sinking.

Sarah shrugged. “Maybe their dog keeps getting out. Maybe they want to block the noise from the highway. Maybe…" She trailed off. The uncertainty in her eyes mirrored his own.

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