perplexed - Story 104419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the quiet of the library that made it worse. She sat at a table, surrounded by the hushed whispers of turning pages. The library felt empty. She fiddled with the wallet, turning it over and over.

She had found it on the bus. The owner was probably frantic by now. She knew she should turn it in, but her own situation was… complicated. She felt paralyzed. She felt a weight descend as the afternoon dragged on.

She glanced around, feeling a sense of dread. The silence of the library was both comforting and stifling. She finally got up and left, the wallet still in her hand.

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