perplexed - Story 104312 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows as Amelia walked into the living room, ready for a cozy evening with David. He was at the coffee table, surrounded by papers. She saw the familiar Cyrillic script – her Russian.

“Hey, what are you…” she began, her voice trailing off. David looked up, startled. His cheeks flushed a light pink.

"Just… reading," he mumbled, quickly gathering the papers. His movements seemed frantic, almost guilty.

Amelia's brow furrowed. She felt a sudden, inexplicable tightness in her chest. It was a bizarre sensation, like a puzzle she couldn’t quite solve. He’d never shown any interest in Russian before. What was happening?

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