perplexed - Story 104479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked up the package from his porch. Addressed to 'Ms. Eleanor Vance', at his address. He’d lived there for three years. He had no idea who Ms. Vance was. He ran his hand through his hair, a nervous gesture.

He carried the package inside, his movements deliberate. He set it on the kitchen table. He stared at it for a long moment. It wasn't large, but it was heavy.

He finally reached for his pocket knife. He was going to have a look.

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