perplexed - Story 104684 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny, meticulously arranged dolls, each dressed in period costumes, filled every available shelf space. Sarah, who’d collected antique dolls as a young woman, now found her daughter, ten-year-old Chloe, completely engrossed in the hobby. Chloe had begun researching doll history with an enthusiasm Sarah hadn’t felt in years. The house felt smaller, the air thicker with a sense of... something. Sarah retreated to the sunroom, clutching a cup of cold coffee, the silence of the space a poor substitute for her own thoughts.

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