perplexed - Story 104313 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the air as Mark entered the kitchen. He found Sarah at the counter, meticulously writing something on a recipe card. He wrapped his arms around her waist, kissing her neck.

"Morning, beautiful. What are you up to?" he murmured. Sarah flinched slightly and pulled away.

"Nothing much," she replied, her voice clipped. "Just… making a new recipe." He glanced at the card. It was filled with unfamiliar characters – Korean. His eyes narrowed. He was caught off guard; she'd never mentioned wanting to learn Korean. A vague sense of disorientation settled over him.

He reached out, wanting to touch her, to understand. But he paused, his hand hanging in the air.

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