perplexed - Story 104764 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scene was jarring. David found himself in a state of suspended animation, his feet rooted to the spot. The air seemed dense, heavy. He tilted his head, studying the bare ground, the splintered remains. He'd been looking forward to seeing his children and grandchildren play beneath its shade one day.

He took a slow step forward, then another. He circled the stump, his mind racing. He couldn’t process it. He reached out to touch the rough edge, then quickly pulled his hand back, as if burned. A wave of nausea washed over him.

He felt a deep unease, an unsettling sense of disorientation.

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