perplexed - Story 104120 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The echo of the coach’s words resonated in the empty squash court. Sarah, a dedicated singles player, now faced the prospect of playing doubles. It had been suggested, and the coach was insistent it would improve her game.

She looked at the court, imagining the dynamics. Doubles. More players. The strategies, the communication. It was a change she hadn't anticipated.

Her breath hitched in her chest. She had the court to herself, the familiar rhythm of the ball. Now, that space would be filled. She picked up a ball, its weight feeling different in her hand. A wave of unease washed over her.

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