perplexed - Story 104443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of lavender wafted from Leo's side of the room, a scent he associated with his journal's hiding place. He felt a sudden, unpleasant heat creep up his neck. He glanced at the bed, meticulously made, almost…sterile. His journal was usually tucked under his pillow, a comforting weight. Now, it was gone.

His roommate, Kevin, was sprawled on the couch, headphones blasting music. He looked up, catching Leo's eye.

"Hey man," Kevin said, smiling. "Everything alright?"

Leo cleared his throat. "Yeah, fine. Just… looking for something." He gestured vaguely.

Kevin shrugged and returned to his music. Leo’s hands clenched into fists. He couldn't shake the sensation that something was profoundly off-kilter.

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