perplexed - Story 104844 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you the one making the noise?" The question, delivered with a directness that stung, came from the man in the gardening hat. He was gesturing towards her house with a soil-stained finger. Clara’s mouth dropped open.

"I...I don't even *own* anything loud," she said, her voice a little breathless. She hadn't thrown any parties, not had any work done. Her house was usually very quiet. It was, indeed, almost eerily silent at the moment.

The man grunted, unconvinced. He turned and shuffled back towards his own property, muttering something about "the youth of today." She watched him go, a knot forming in her stomach.

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