perplexed - Story 104034 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived with the subject line: “Your Story Published!” Daniel clicked it, his heart rate spiking. He scanned the message, his brow furrowing as he read the opening paragraphs. It detailed his supposed rise through the cutthroat world of finance.

He laughed a hollow, brittle sound. He was a librarian, for God’s sake.

He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. The words blurred on the screen. He felt a desperate urge to scrub his face. He felt like he was suffocating, trapped in a reality not his own.

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