perplexed - Story 104546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, a growing sense of detachment stealing over him. The photos, the captions, the comments - it all seemed to exist in a dimension beyond his grasp. His son, Ben, had always been a quiet boy, but this…this was another person entirely. He pushed back from his desk, the chair scraping against the floor. He wanted to understand, to bridge the gap, but he didn't know how. He felt a sinking sensation in his chest.

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