perplexed - Story 104846 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny slip of paper, folded in half and shoved through the gap in the mail slot, read: "Turn it down! It's disturbing the peace!" Jessica had to squint to read the hastily scribbled message. She immediately felt warm.

She hadn't even been home all day. She'd been at the library, poring over old books for a research project. The only sounds in her apartment were the gentle tick of the clock and the murmur of the refrigerator.

She glanced around the room, feeling a mounting sense of unease. Her eyes darted around, looking for something she might have missed, some clue, some tangible thing to explain this.

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