perplexed - Story 104810 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You have a sister," her mother stated flatly, as though reporting the weather. The words hung in the air, heavy and dense. It was a truth that felt both impossible and inevitable. Emily, always a pragmatist, was taken aback, unable to process the news.

She stared at the wall, her gaze unfocused. Her hands fidgeted in her lap. The familiar pattern of the wallpaper seemed to blur. She couldn't wrap her head around it, couldn't figure out where she fit into this newly revealed story. She felt as though she had been given a puzzle with missing pieces.

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