perplexed - Story 104084 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blueprints were spread across her dining room table. Amelia traced the proposed fence line with a trembling finger. Why? She muttered to herself, the question a recurring mantra in her mind.

She walked out to the edge of her property, peering over into Mr. Henderson’s yard. He was nowhere to be seen, but the rhythmic whir of a power saw echoed from his backyard.

The sunshine felt strangely hot. She felt a shiver crawl up her spine. The vibrant green of her lawn suddenly seemed too bright, too exposed.

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