perplexed - Story 104078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The delivery guy handed Emily the pizza, a small smile playing on his lips. "Enjoy your pizza, *BookLover88*," he said. Her pizza? He knew her online handle? His face flushed. It was *PizzaPal*, the guy she had been messaging about their mutual love of cheesy pizzas and trashy TV shows.

She stammered a thank you, suddenly aware of her messy hair and the fact she was still wearing her pajamas. The world spun for a moment. She felt a heat rising in her chest.

She closed the door and leaned against it, her pizza box still in hand. The familiar scent of pepperoni did little to ground her. She needed to sit down, and also to take a moment. She went towards the kitchen.

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