perplexed - Story 104797 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had hit her like a punch. I couldn't understand why, but the house felt off. Now, I sat on the porch swing, the late afternoon sun casting long shadows across the lawn. The report, folded neatly in my lap, confirmed my suspicions. A tragic event. I found myself repeatedly glancing at the windows, imagining what had transpired inside. My breath caught in my throat. I felt a growing sense of detachment, as if I was watching a play unfolding, starring people I did not know.

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