perplexed - Story 104789 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a late night, and John, unable to sleep, was aimlessly browsing. Then, the address. The house, looking pristine and modern. He felt a strange unease, a sort of… disconnect.

He got out of bed and paced the room. The photos showed a renovated interior, unrecognizable. The old, familiar scent of the house, of his childhood, was replaced by something… sterile.

He ran a hand through his hair, his mind racing. He felt a sudden, profound sense of… dislocation, as though his past had become untethered.

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