perplexed - Story 104847 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old lady next door, Mrs. Peterson, cornered him on his way to work. "That awful banging," she rasped, clutching her cane for support. "It's been going on all morning!"

Daniel felt a sudden, unwelcome heat flush his face. He’d barely slept all night, and had been at his computer all morning. His house was quiet, and had been all morning. He’d been working remotely, typing away, but had not been moving around.

He managed a weak smile. “I’m sorry, Mrs. Peterson. I haven’t been making any noise. I barely leave my chair.” He felt his smile falter as he looked at her frail form.

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