perplexed - Story 104366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David frowned, the card clutched in his hand. It was a generic, generic birthday card, with generic balloons and a generic "Happy Birthday!". The address on the envelope was correct. His. He didn't recognize the handwriting, which was neat and feminine.

He flipped the card over and over, examining it. The paper felt cheap. He hadn’t had a birthday in months. He felt the blood drain from his face.

He slumped against the wall, the card slowly slipping from his fingers. He hadn't felt right since moving to this new neighborhood, but this…. this was different.

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