perplexed - Story 104070 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unsuccessful." The simple word filled Clara's head. The email felt like a punch. She crumpled the paper in her hands and threw it across the room. Her breath came in short, shallow gasps. She felt trapped.

She stared out the window. The wind was whipping through the trees. She felt the sudden urge to run. To escape. To get away from this. To get away from it all.

She put on her jacket, and headed out of the door. She would go for a walk. She would breathe. She would think. She was not sure what else she could do. She felt confused.

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