perplexed - Story 104935 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tulips were a splash of vibrant red, a stark contrast to the sterile office environment. John's jaw clenched when he saw them. No signature, no message. Just a beautiful bunch of flowers. His colleagues watched him, their own expressions curious.

He was the focus of all their attention. The feeling was not pleasant. He turned away, pretending to be busy with his work. His fingers fumbled with his computer mouse, and his breath hitched. The mystery was consuming him. He had no idea who sent them, and he would like nothing more than to know.

He went to the break room to get some coffee, hoping the hot liquid would take away the unease he was 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