perplexed - Story 104294 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced his apartment, the hardwood floors echoing with each heavy footfall. David had been so certain. His friends had assured him, the clues had been blatant, the air thick with anticipation. The silence, however, was deafening. He stopped at the window, staring out at the darkened street. He ran his hand over his chin. A feeling of unsettlement, like being on a ship tossed about on angry seas, came over him. Where was everyone?

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