perplexed - Story 104010 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was at a convention, signing prints. Someone came up to him and, with a broad grin, pulled up their sleeve. His "Midnight Bloom" was displayed for him to see. He had not expected this.

He blinked, his mind struggling to process. The man beamed, clearly delighted. He felt a knot form in his stomach. He forced a smile and offered a polite word of congratulation, but his thoughts were elsewhere.

He needed to escape, to be alone. He felt a profound sense of… displacement. He excused himself, abruptly.

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