perplexed - Story 104936 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is odd," she muttered, staring at the basket of mixed blooms. The delivery person had been gone before she could ask. Her heart pounded a rapid tattoo against her ribs. She was not sure why, but the lack of a note made her feel a rising tide of unease.

She wandered through her house, the flowers a constant presence in her line of sight. She was a little rattled, her thoughts scattered. She could not focus. Her usual routine felt fractured, disjointed. She had to sit down.

The doorbell rang. She jumped at the sound. She almost didn't answer it.

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