perplexed - Story 104075 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message arrived as Clara was about to order her usual takeout. “Hey, seen you at the cafe a few times. Are you… *StarryEyedGal*?” The message popped up on her screen. Her face went blank. The cafe! She had posted a photo there just yesterday, the same one where she and *TechGeek7* had spent countless hours video chatting.

She swallowed hard, suddenly very aware of the sticky feeling on her hands. Her usual order of pad thai suddenly seemed unappealing. She stared at the screen, her mind racing. This was not how she envisioned their first meeting.

She put the phone down and looked around the room, which felt suddenly unfamiliar. Her heart was beating fast. The feeling was a tight clench in her gut. She felt like she was trapped in a very small room.

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