perplexed - Story 104558 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog bed remained unused in the corner of the living room. Jason, who had been so enthusiastic about adopting a puppy, barely acknowledged its presence. Emily had picked it out herself, a plush, navy blue one. He kept to himself, working late hours, barely speaking to her. He’d seemed delighted at first. Now, his mood had changed entirely. The silence between them was more prominent than ever. What could have caused such a drastic shift in his attitude?

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