perplexed - Story 104409 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you hear the lawyer?" Richard asked, rubbing his chin, his gaze drifting around the sun-drenched living room. His sister, Susan, was inspecting a chipped teacup.

The sunlight streamed through the dusty windows, illuminating motes of dust dancing in the air. The silence was broken only by the occasional creak of the house settling.

He’d always associated the house with his grandmother. The memories. The shared meals. The stories. Now it was his. And Susan's. He kept replaying the lawyer's words in his head, a phrase echoing, "Joint ownership." A sensation of unease began to stir within him, a subtle but insistent disturbance.

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