perplexed - Story 104845 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The police officer knocked, a polite but firm rap. "We've had a noise complaint," he stated, his eyes scanning the interior of Mark's apartment. Mark gestured for the officer to come in, but felt a strange inability to meet his gaze.

He wracked his brain, but came up empty. He'd been alone all night, working on a project that required complete silence. His laptop, his desk, the walls - they all bore witness to the fact that he'd been diligently studying.

He swallowed hard. What noise could they be talking about? He felt a sudden, inexplicable chill. He began to search the apartment for some explanation.

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