perplexed - Story 104919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was watering the flowers when Mr. Jones appeared, his face grim. The air grew still. The request, when it came, felt heavy. He thought about the redbuds that bloomed in the spring.

He felt a hollowness, a sense of loss that felt disproportionate to the situation. He stared at the tree, suddenly seeing its age and frailty. He knew he'd need to consider it carefully.

He started to pace in the yard, his hands stuffed in his pockets. He felt a pressure building inside him that he didn’t understand. This simple request, and now he felt like everything was wrong.

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