perplexed - Story 104781 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The laptop screen glowed, illuminating Amelia’s face with an eerie light. She’d been idly scrolling through Zillow, a habit she’d picked up in the wake of her recent move, when it appeared: 14 Willow Creek Lane. The address of her childhood home. Her thumb froze.

She clicked. The photos loaded, each a fresh stab of… something. The living room, painted a bland beige now, was once a vibrant blue, a color she'd insisted on. The overgrown rose bushes, pruned back and tamed, looked… foreign. Her breath hitched.

Amelia ran a hand through her hair, a nervous gesture she hadn't realized she still employed. The listing said "move-in ready." Ready for whom? For what?

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