perplexed - Story 104335 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No way," Mark mumbled, re-reading the message on his phone. The notification had popped up while he was enjoying his usual morning coffee. He’d barely touched his scone. "The Curry Palace" was closing due to "unforeseen circumstances.”

He slowly lowered his phone, and stared at his scone as if it were a strange object. The Curry Palace was more than a restaurant; it was his weekly ritual, his Tuesday escape. He felt a weird, sinking sensation in his gut. A sudden and unfamiliar emptiness filled his chest. How could they close? It didn’t make any sense.

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