perplexed - Story 104788 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived via a text from a childhood friend: "Saw our old house on Zillow! Crazy, right?" Sam’s response was a simple, “Wow.” But inside, a disquiet settled.

He opened the link. The exterior was as he remembered, yet… different. The vibrant green of the lawn seemed overly manicured. The familiar sense of place felt altered, somehow, as if a piece of a puzzle was missing.

He found himself wandering around his apartment, unable to settle. A feeling like something important had been misplaced, though he couldn't name 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