perplexed - Story 104376 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d been renovating the attic when he found it. A loose floorboard, easily missed in the chaotic clutter. He pried it up, revealing a small, square opening. He gazed down into the darkness. His mouth fell open slightly.

He couldn't shake the feeling of being watched. He grabbed a flashlight and peered inside, squinting. It looked like a tiny room, with a rough-hewn wooden door at the far end. What was this? He had a feeling this wasn’t part of the original design.

He slowly lowered himself down, his movements cautious. His mind wrestled with possibilities, each more outlandish than the last. He felt a shiver of unease run down his spine. He couldn’t explain this.

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