perplexed - Story 104407 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sheer scale of it was the first thing that struck Michael. His brother, Tom, was already in the attic, rummaging through boxes. Michael stood in the entrance hall, his gaze sweeping upwards.

The high ceilings, the intricate woodwork, the sheer number of rooms. It was overwhelming. He didn't know where to begin.

Tom called down, "Mike, come see this! I think Grandma’s old stamp collection is up here!" Michael hesitated, the call to action somehow failing to penetrate the inertia holding him captive. A slow knot formed in his stomach. What were they supposed to do with all of 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