perplexed - Story 104557 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty birdcage gleamed in the dim living room light. She remembered the sheer joy in his face when he'd purchased it. Now, Daniel sat across the table from her, picking at his nails. He’d promised her a chatty parrot. He’d built the stand himself. Now, he just seemed… distant. He refused to look at the cage. He barely spoke. The room felt strangely hollow. She couldn't understand the sudden change in plans.

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