perplexed - Story 104947 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notebook was hidden amongst the kitchen recipe books. It fell open to a page detailing a character named "Clara," who was prone to bouts of anxiety. The character was described as someone who loved to cook, using precise measurements of spices. The character was also afraid of the ocean. It was all a little too close to home.

He felt a warmth flood his face. His wife, Maya, was currently out at the beach, something she avoided, but recently seemed to be taking a liking to. It all seemed strange.

He closed the notebook, a strange buzzing filling his ears. He wasn’t sure how to feel, but he was certain he didn’t like it. He felt as if someone had pulled the rug out from under him.

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