perplexed - Story 104368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen as Thomas picked up the mail. He sorted through the pile, discarding the usual advertisements, and then paused. A bright, cheerful birthday card. He hadn't celebrated his birthday in months. The address was correct, his handwriting.

He walked over to the kitchen table and sat down, carefully placing the card in front of him. He touched it gingerly, as if it might bite. He felt a shiver despite the warmth of the oven.

He pushed the mail away, suddenly not hungry.

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