perplexed - Story 104080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah walked into the bookstore, excited to buy the new release she'd been waiting for. She spotted a familiar face near the front. There was *BookwormBob*, her online friend, browsing the shelves. He turned, and their eyes met.

A strange silence descended. She felt a lightness in her stomach, an unfamiliar flutter. It was the moment of revelation. She was surprised and found herself struggling for words.

She had an urge to run, but instead, stood frozen, feeling the blood rush to her face. She took a deep breath. She smiled then said hi.

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