perplexed - Story 104548 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air thickened in the small kitchen as she confronted her daughter, Lily. The burner phone lay on the counter between them. Lily remained stoic, but the slight tremor in her hands betrayed her. Her mother's mind struggled to make sense of what she had seen. The carefully constructed façade. The alternative life. She sat in silence for what felt like an eternity, the silence punctuated only by the ticking of the kitchen clock. Her throat constricted.

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