perplexed - Story 104088 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The construction crew had already started digging the post holes, and Emily walked around the yard with a clipboard and a pensive expression. The fence, it seemed, was happening whether she liked it or not.

She ran her hand along the cool metal of the mailbox. The mail carrier was always so friendly, and Emily and her always exchanged pleasantries. She wondered if the fence would affect that too.

Her thoughts raced. She felt like she was missing something, like a piece of the puzzle that was now gone.

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