perplexed - Story 104867 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, leather-bound book arrived in the morning mail. Ms. Carter's stomach clenched when she saw the familiar handwriting on the label. It was from Leo, a student who'd struggled with everything, and who she'd given a particularly hard time.

She hesitated, then reluctantly opened it. The book was a collection of blank pages. There were no words. Just the smooth, pristine paper. She flipped through it slowly, her breath catching in her throat.

A wave of dizziness washed over her. She knew this was deliberate, a test. Why did it give her this awful, unsettled feeling?

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