perplexed - Story 104551 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah stared at the small, empty fish tank. Empty, except for the decorative plastic castle, a relic from her childhood. Liam, her roommate, had been so adamant. “A fish! Low maintenance, adds character, and we can name him Kevin!” Now, the silence of the apartment felt heavier than usual. She ran a hand through her hair, a nervous habit. He was at the library, ostensibly studying. But something felt amiss. She reread the text he’d sent earlier: “Can’t talk now. Fish situation… reconsidering.” What did that even mean?

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