perplexed - Story 104767 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant green space now had a gaping hole. The absence of the old oak felt like a death in the family. She swallowed hard, struggling to maintain her composure. It was a complete shock.

Her vision blurred slightly, and she blinked rapidly, fighting back tears. Her heart pounded in her chest, a frantic rhythm against the silence. It didn't make sense. She walked back towards her car, the keys felt heavy in her hand.

She stood still and stared at the empty space. It was just a void, a blank canvas.

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