perplexed - Story 104439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the commercial during the football game. "Try the sensational 'Wild Mushroom Risotto' at The Golden Spoon!" The camera zoomed in on the dish, the creamy texture, the delicate garnishes. It was a perfect replica of the risotto he’d spent years perfecting, the one he cooked every Thanksgiving. It was his dish.

He leaned forward in his chair, his body tense. The sudden surge of anger made him forget about the game, and the friends around him, and he took a deep breath.

He felt a wave of heat wash over him. He felt his hands clench. He didn't care about the game. He didn't care about anything.

He stood up and walked into his kitchen. He stood there for a long time.

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