perplexed - Story 104940 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunflowers were enormous, almost comical, filling the small apartment with a cheerful, yet unsettling, light. She felt a surge of… something… as she stared at them. They had arrived with no warning. No sender's name.

She picked up her phone, then put it back down. The decision was not easy. She felt a knot forming in her stomach. She went to her computer and typed "anonymous flower delivery." She needed to know what the internet thought of this. The information she found made her even more anxious.

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