perplexed - Story 104423 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation crackled as Sarah opened it, the sound startling her. She’d found it nestled among the junk mail, a bright splash of color amidst the bills and flyers. She looked at it, then quickly looked away, as if it were a snake. A chill ran down her spine, a shiver that had nothing to do with the temperature of the room.

Her fingers tightened around the paper. It was an invitation, a summons. It stirred up the dust of the past, the memories she had meticulously locked away. She thought of her ex-boyfriend, Mark. Had he changed? She glanced at the picture on her desk of her daughter. What would everyone think of her?

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