perplexed - Story 104480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thin, rectangular box arrived during a downpour. Rain splattered the label, obscuring the name. It was addressed to the address. Liam stared at it, the water beading on his eyelashes. He couldn't make out the name of the recipient. The package felt oddly cold to the touch.

He brought it inside, dripping. He set the box on the kitchen counter, quickly wiping his hands.

He hesitated, then picked up a pair of scissors. The cutting motion felt wrong, but he pressed on, compelled, and began to cut the tape.

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