perplexed - Story 104835 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bank's logo swam before John’s eyes. The numbers seemed to mock him. His wife, Maria, had always been the frugal one, the one who clipped coupons and worried about bills. This… this was a shock. A colossal sum, accruing interest, hidden away.

He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling. He'd always believed their partnership was built on trust. Now, a fissure had appeared, a crack in the foundation.

He sat, numb, on the edge of the bed. He felt utterly adrift, like a sailor lost at sea.

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