perplexed - Story 104470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the antique telescope, his grandfather’s pride and joy, feeling a sense of dread. His sister had just announced their shared inheritance was to be sold to cover their parents’ debts. The telescope, used for countless nights of stargazing, was now destined for the auction block.

He felt like he was suffocating. He stared out the window, trying to breathe deeply. His hands were shaking. He felt a deep sense of dislocation.

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