perplexed - Story 104446 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya found the small, heart-shaped lock on her journal undone. She always remembered to lock it before leaving the room. A shiver ran through her, despite the warmth of the afternoon sun streaming through the window. The room felt suddenly cramped, the familiar space distorted.

Her roommate, Olivia, was in the bathroom, humming. Maya went over to the journal and flipped through a few pages. She didn’t see anything obviously amiss, but the paper felt different, somehow…used.

The bathroom door opened, and Olivia emerged, drying her hands on a towel. “Oh, hey! I borrowed your journal for a second," she chirped. "That lock is so cute!"

Maya couldn’t meet Olivia’s eyes. Her stomach churned.

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