perplexed - Story 104401 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The deed lay open on the kitchen table, sunlight illuminating the spidery script of the lawyer's signature. Amelia traced the loops and flourishes with a fingertip, her brow furrowing. Her brother, Leo, was already rummaging through a cupboard, humming a tuneless melody.

He unearthed a chipped china teacup, holding it aloft. "Remember these, Ami? Grandma always said they were worth a fortune."

Amelia sighed, the weight of the house settling on her shoulders. The silence of the rooms was deafening, broken only by the tick of the grandfather clock in the hallway. It was like Grandma was still here.

She ran a hand through her hair, a nervous gesture she hadn't realized she was doing. The house was a monument to Grandma's life, and now, it was hers. And Leo's. But what were they supposed to *do* with it?

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