perplexed - Story 104448 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of her perfume, the one she only used on special occasions, hung in the air, a scent she hadn't worn in days. Clara found it strange that her usually scent-free dorm room smelled of a fragrance she considered private. Then she saw the journal. Its pages were slightly dog-eared.

Her roommate, Alex, was sitting on the bed, scrolling through her phone, seemingly unconcerned. A sense of unease settled over Clara. She picked up the journal and quietly began to look through it, the pages familiar but somehow altered.

"Did you... Did you touch my journal?" Clara asked, her voice barely a whisper.

Alex looked up, a look of surprise washing over her face.

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