perplexed - Story 104836 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This isn't yours, is it?" Clara asked, her voice hushed. She held the bank statement aloft, her hand shaking. Her husband, Ben, looked up from his newspaper, his face immediately clouding.

“What’s that?”

She didn’t respond, only stared at him, her eyes wide. She’d known him for twenty years. Twenty years, and this was new. He’d been talking about a new car for months. This could be it. But he never said anything about saving.

The newspaper rustled in his hand, a futile attempt at a shield. His shoulders slumped slightly.

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