perplexed - Story 104206 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared, mouth agape, at the empty space. His car, gone. His own car, vanished from his own property. He rubbed his eyes, thinking he must be dreaming. He slapped himself lightly on the cheek. Nope. Wide awake.

A paper. A notice. He crouched down to get a better look. A tow truck. Impound. Reason… something about a violation. He didn’t understand. This was his space. He owned this property. He ran his hand through his hair.

He felt a knot form in his stomach. He wasn’t sure what to do. The world seemed to wobble. He took a deep breath. Okay, he told himself. Okay. He needs to find the car, he thought.

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