perplexed - Story 104467 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped porcelain doll, a gift from her great-grandmother, lay on the dusty attic floor. Her mother, her voice unusually flat, announced her intention to part with it. The doll's painted eyes seemed to stare accusingly at her.

She picked it up, cradling it in her arms. A profound sense of unease settled over her. She knew the doll’s history, the stories her mother used to tell.

She ran her thumb along the doll's porcelain cheek, her heart pounding in her chest. She couldn't understand why her mother would even consider doing this.

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