perplexed - Story 104779 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John sat on the edge of the old oak desk in his office, his inherited, cramped office. His sister, Mary, had inherited the family’s estate agency. He felt a flicker of discomfort as he thought about her lavish new offices. He, on the other hand, had gotten a small, hand-painted wooden box. He felt the blood throb in his temples as he looked at it.

He opened the box. Inside was a single, tarnished key and a note. It read, “Seek the truth, and you will find your fortune.” He ran his hand through his hair. He didn’t understand, he didn’t know where to start.

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