perplexed - Story 104790 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen flickered. Maria paused, her hand hovering over the mouse. The listing for her childhood home. A ripple of… something she couldn't articulate moved through her.

She took a slow, deliberate breath. The photos showcased a starkly different interior, a modern makeover replacing the familiar clutter of her youth. The vibrant colors of the walls were gone, replaced by muted tones.

She felt an overwhelming urge to… do something, anything. She felt the urge to go there, to see it for herself. She closed her eyes for a moment, then opened them, and slowly reached for her keys.

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