perplexed - Story 104793 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The realtor had been so insistent on the "great bones" of the house. Now, Sarah sat at her kitchen table, the coffee in her mug suddenly cold. She flipped the page, a grainy photograph of the crime scene staring back at her. The details, brutal and specific, were a stark contrast to the inviting warmth of her own home. She felt a growing disquiet, a coldness that settled deep inside. The image of the room, once her dining area, now a location on a report, wouldn't leave her. The cheerful wallpaper, carefully chosen, felt suffocating.

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