perplexed - Story 104370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the day settled heavily on Henry’s shoulders as he dragged himself to the mailbox. Amongst the junk mail, a single, unassuming card. A picture of a bunch of balloons. A generic birthday card. His birthday was next month.

He stared at it, a slow dawning of… what? Something was off. He felt a strange tingling sensation in his fingertips as he picked it up. He held it close to his face, trying to discern something, anything, in the ordinary image.

He went inside, leaving the door ajar, the silence of the apartment suddenly amplified. He felt as though someone was watching him.

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