perplexed - Story 104832 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always been a minimalist. Now, peering at the printout, she understood why. The details were simple, stark. A single account, steadily growing over time. The sum… it made her scalp prickle. It was enough to buy a house, outright. And he hadn't mentioned a single thing.

"David?" she called, her voice tight. She found him in the garage, tinkering with his vintage motorcycle. He looked up, a wrench dangling from his hand, his expression open.

"What's up, love?"

She held up the statement. The paper crinkled slightly in her trembling hand. His smile faltered. His eyes narrowed, and a flicker of something she'd never seen before, like a trapped bird, passed across his features.

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