perplexed - Story 104775 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s words hung in the air: “To Sarah, the family fortune and business. To Mark… the family portraits.” Sarah had barely suppressed a triumphant laugh. Mark, still reeling, felt the blood drain from his face as he stared at the framed portraits. All of them.

He went home. He stood in his new apartment, walls lined with familiar faces, staring back at him. His great-grandfather, stern and unsmiling. His grandmother, her eyes glittering with secrets. He lifted a particularly heavy frame. Behind it, a note, scrawled in an elegant hand, read: "Find the truth."

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