perplexed - Story 104784 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark saw the listing while at work, a casual glance during his lunch break. He felt a weird sensation in his chest, a sort of… sinking. He felt like he’d stepped on a loose floorboard.

He closed the laptop, then opened it again. He scrolled through the photos, the interior now renovated, unrecognizable. Where once the family's laughter echoed, there were now clean lines and modern furniture.

He pushed his chair back from his desk, needing air. He took a few deep breaths, the office's stale air suddenly feeling insufficient. He considered calling his brother, but what would he even say?

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