perplexed - Story 104976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down on the back of my neck as I listened to Mrs. Chen explain her vision. She wanted to plant sunflowers, a whole row of them, along the fence line. My hands gripped the handles of the lawnmower.

"They'll be beautiful, don't you think?" she asked, her voice full of enthusiasm. But I couldn't seem to muster a reply. The air felt thick, the vibrant colours of my garden suddenly too bright.

I just stared, my mind racing. I didn't know how to respond. The thought of change made me physically ill.

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