perplexed - Story 104478 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The parcel was large and unwieldy, propped against the front door. "To Mr. Silas Thorne," the label read, in bold, black letters. He’d never heard of a Silas Thorne. He'd only moved in a few weeks ago. The weight was significant.

He strained to lift it, dragging it inside. He set it down on the floor, breathing heavily. His heart thumped in his chest. What was in this thing?

He stood, staring at the package, his gaze darting from corner to corner. He began to feel a headache coming on. He crouched down and began to examine the packaging.

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