perplexed - Story 104367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind was unusually brisk for a summer evening, ruffling the leaves in the trees as Maria walked down her driveway. In the mailbox, amongst the usual flyers and bills, was a birthday card. A childish design, with a picture of a puppy on the front. It wasn't her birthday. Not for ages.

She stared at the card, a strange, electric current zinging through her. She felt exposed, vulnerable. She quickly glanced around. No one. She tore open the card, finding an empty page.

She crumpled the card in her hand, her knuckles turning white. She felt a need to check and recheck every lock.

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