perplexed - Story 104438 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cookbook arrived in the mail, unsolicited. Flipping through the pages, her heart sank. The illustration of the "Spiced Apple Cider Doughnuts," were exactly her own recipe, even down to the drizzle of caramel. The cookbook credited another baker, someone she'd met only once at a farmers market.

She sank into a chair. She ran her fingers through her hair, tugging at the strands. The world seemed to shrink around her.

She closed her eyes, trying to calm herself. She remembered the day she shared the recipe with the other baker. She had been so proud. She was a fool.

She felt a wave of something akin to betrayal wash over her. It left her feeling weak and hollow.

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