perplexed - Story 104917 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of wind chimes filled the silence as she stood on the porch, waiting for the neighbor to arrive. She took a deep breath, trying to calm herself. They'd always gotten along. The tree, a weeping willow, was a shared source of beauty.

She chewed on her lip, feeling a strange tightness in her chest. She found herself twisting the silver band on her finger. The neighbor’s request seemed out of character.

She heard the gate squeak open. Her heart hammered against her ribs. What could she possibly say? She felt completely unprepared.

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