perplexed - Story 104355 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, come *on*," sighed Emily, her voice echoing in the dusty space. She'd been expecting a clear attic to store her Christmas decorations. Instead, she was staring at a jumble of things. Old photographs, yellowed letters, and a trunk that seemed to contain nothing but antique lace.

She crossed her arms, a shiver running down her spine despite the stifling heat. This was not how she wanted to spend her Saturday. She felt a knot forming in her stomach.

She kicked at a loose floorboard in frustration. The previous owners hadn't mentioned *anything*! Now she was left to make sense of this confusing mess.

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