perplexed - Story 104770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared, his eyes wide, at the freshly cut stump. The sight stole the breath from his lungs. The towering fir, his sentinel, his childhood companion, reduced to nothing. He felt the blood drain from his face.

His head swam, his legs felt shaky. He ran his hand over his face, as if to wipe away the scene before him. He felt as though the very ground had shifted under his feet.

He didn't know how to deal with this, what to do. The world seemed suddenly chaotic.

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