perplexed - Story 104843 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at 2:00 AM, a curt message from the building manager: “Complaint regarding excessive noise from apartment 4B. Investigate.” Sarah sat bolt upright in bed, heart hammering. Her apartment was 4B.

She reviewed the past few days in her mind, desperately searching for some explanation. She had worked late all week, only to come home and collapse into a quiet sleep. Had she dreamed it? Had she accidentally left a radio on?

She clicked her tongue and sat for a long moment, staring at the ceiling. The ceiling fan swayed slowly. She felt a strange buzzing in her ears.

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