perplexed - Story 104406 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So...this is it, huh?" Ben said, his voice unusually quiet. His sister, Chloe, was already on her phone, snapping photos and making notes. The house felt strangely unfamiliar.

He felt a pull in his chest, a sensation of being both drawn in and pushed away. The old wooden floors creaked beneath his feet as he paced the living room, hands shoved in his pockets. The silence was unnerving, broken only by Chloe’s intermittent chatter.

He glanced at a faded photograph on the mantelpiece—Grandma, smiling, surrounded by family. The thought of stepping into her shoes, of making decisions about this place, left him feeling off-kilter.

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