perplexed - Story 104745 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence felt deafening. The once proud elm lay splayed across the fence line, a tangled mess of branches and leaves. A knot formed in her stomach. She hadn't heard a thing.

She crouched down, her fingers tracing the rough bark of the severed trunk. Something just wasn't right. The clean break, the lack of any obvious cause... it felt like a puzzle with a missing piece.

She pushed herself up, her gaze darting around the yard. She thought of calling someone, but who? The local arboretum? The police? She was genuinely uncertain as to how to respond.

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