perplexed - Story 104468 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The worn leather-bound journal, filled with her great-aunt's elegant script, sat open on the kitchen table. Her cousin, her face flushed and agitated, was proposing its sale. The journal was the family chronicle, detailing generations of history.

She slowly reached for the journal, feeling a wave of disorientation wash over her. Her hands trembled as she turned a page, the familiar words swimming before her eyes.

She couldn’t seem to gather her thoughts, the request making her uneasy.

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