perplexed - Story 104997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Chloe flipped through the pages of a well-worn anthology. She stopped, her eyes widening, at a familiar essay title: "Finding My Voice Through Photography." Her essay. She felt a sudden chill, despite the warm café around her.

She traced the familiar sentences with her fingertip. It was a piece about the ways she learned to express herself. Now it felt as if she had been stripped bare.

She took a shaky sip of her latte, the warmth doing little to soothe the sudden chill within her. She closed the book, clutching it to her chest, the weight of the moment pressing down on her.

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