perplexed - Story 104487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived a month ago. He’d ignored it, put it in a drawer. Now, here he was. He felt…unsteady. He wasn’t sure how to feel.

He walked around the perimeter of the property, kicking at loose stones, avoiding eye contact with the workers. The place looked smaller than he remembered, the garden less vibrant.

He pulled out a crumpled photograph from his pocket, a picture of him as a child, grinning in front of the house. He felt a sharp pang, a quick stab of something he could only describe as an overwhelming disorientation. He didn’t know what to do with the photo.

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