perplexed - Story 104505 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun beat down, and I was trying to read on my porch, when I heard the telltale thump-thump-thump of paws. There, across the lawn, was Buster, a hefty Labrador who belonged to the folks next door. My book slid from my grasp.

I stood, my gaze fixed on the dog, my brow furrowed. He always acted surprised to be there, as if he simply *appeared.* I crossed my arms, a frown etching itself onto my face. This was becoming ridiculous. I was utterly baffled.

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