perplexed - Story 104365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the hallway as Sarah unlocked her mailbox. Amongst the usual junk mail, a single, brightly colored card stood out. A picture of a laughing clown. "Happy Birthday!" it announced. Her birthday was in December.

She stared at the card, mouth slightly agape. What was this? A prank? A wrong address? The hairs on the back of her neck stood on end. She looked up and down the hallway, but no one was in sight.

She tucked the card under her arm, an uneasy feeling settling in her chest. She needed a cup of tea. Strong tea.

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