perplexed - Story 104474 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The box was small, almost insignificant, but the weight of it in Leo's hands felt anything but. It was addressed to "Ms. Evelyn Reed," a name he didn't recognise, at his address. He’d taken possession of the house only a month prior, replacing the previous owner, a Mr. Evans. The postmark was from a town several states away.

He set it on the countertop, the polished surface reflecting his concerned expression. His knuckles were white as he tapped them on the lid. What could it be? He opened the drawer, and took out a letter opener.

He paced the kitchen, the silence of the house amplified by his own thoughts. He took a deep breath and quickly opened the box.

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