perplexed - Story 104085 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the door, the sound echoing in the silent house. The notice. A fence. He couldn't shake the unsettling feeling. He glanced at the window, as if expecting to see someone staring back at him.

He grabbed a beer from the refrigerator, the cold metal a small comfort against his palm. He walked out to the backyard, the setting sun painting the sky in fiery hues. He looked at his garden. It now seemed… incomplete.

He sat on the patio furniture, the silence amplifying the thrumming in his ears. What was driving this sudden construction?

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