perplexed - Story 104345 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a strange energy. Sarah stood rooted to the spot, a tremor running through her. There, amidst a collection of discarded toys, sat her beloved Clementine. A coldness settled in her bones. She couldn’t remember the last time she’d seen her, probably when she was a child. The yard sale owner, a man with a weathered face, busily arranged some garden gnomes. Sarah's palms began to sweat. Her mind raced, a jumble of forgotten memories and unsettling possibilities. What was going on?

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