perplexed - Story 104887 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The mail carrier, Emily, stared at the envelope addressed to Mr. Fitzwilliam. It was thick, heavy, and embossed with a crest she didn't recognise. He always complained about the price of stamps!

She’d delivered his mail for years. He always seemed to be pinching pennies. Always wearing the same worn tweed jacket. He always walked, never drove, and it made her heart warm.

The envelope felt strangely out of place in her hands. She couldn't shake the unsettling feeling that she'd been missing something vital, something she’d taken for granted.

Her fingers trembled slightly as she continued on her route.

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