perplexed - Story 104685 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The garage was now a kingdom of paints, canvases, and the acrid smell of turpentine. David had always enjoyed painting, a quiet outlet for his creativity. His daughter, Maya, however, had turned it into a vocation. At twelve, she'd declared herself a "professional artist," even though her subjects were the family dog and a still life of fruit. He felt a faint ache behind his eyes as he surveyed the mess, the vibrant chaos that used to be his sanctuary, now overtaken. He backed slowly out of the space, unsure where to go.

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