perplexed - Story 104346 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the bear. His jaw worked, but no words came out. The bright sun seemed to dim, casting long shadows across the dusty lawn. He’d given that bear away to a homeless shelter when he turned 15. The feeling of being completely unmoored was overwhelming. David's eyes narrowed. He felt a deep sense of wrongness. The bear was wearing an outfit, a miniature denim jacket and tiny jeans. His brow furrowed. He felt a need to understand the circumstances, a sudden compulsion to know how and why his bear had been taken.

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