perplexed - Story 104319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a quiet Sunday afternoon. Sarah was reading in the living room while Ben was outside, doing some yard work. As she passed his open bedroom window, she heard a sound, unfamiliar and yet familiar. It was the rhythm of her ancestral language, her grandmother's language, Gaelic.

She stopped in her tracks, her hand flying to her mouth. She felt a surge of… what? It wasn't anger, but something like it. Confusion? She couldn’t name the feeling. Her heart pounded in her chest.

Slowly, carefully, she went to the door.

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