perplexed - Story 104838 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The printout felt like a burning coal in her hand. Grace had been cleaning out the attic when she found it, tucked inside a forgotten photo album. The account details were startling. Her husband, Thomas, had this all this time?

She stared out the window, at the familiar landscape suddenly rendered alien. They were just scraping by, or so she'd thought. The constant discussions, the budget meetings – had they all been a charade?

Her jaw clenched. A strange pressure built behind her eyes. He was downstairs, watching television. Should she go to him? The thought was overwhelming.

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