perplexed - Story 104730 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dim light of the study barely illuminated the letter in Thomas’s hands. It was a typed draft from his grandfather, a man who always seemed calm and collected. The letter announced his withdrawal from the military.

The reasons given included 'philosophical differences' and 'the constraints on personal growth.' The words felt jarring. Thomas had always thought of his grandfather's service as a source of strength and pride.

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture. The room felt closed in, the air thick with unspoken stories. He leaned back in the chair. He struggled to fully understand the life of the man he thought he knew.

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