perplexed - Story 104127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, cracked screen of Ben's phone displayed the dreaded words: "Delayed." He felt a strange hollowness inside, a hollowness that amplified the noise of the crowded terminal. The concert! His favorite band’s reunion tour. He had tickets.

He kicked a small bag with his foot. It was an impulsive gesture, a vent for the building emotion. He wanted to scream. He imagined the electric atmosphere of the venue, the thumping bass, the lights.

He checked the time, again. The distance felt insurmountable. It was as if something was pulling him down, into a vast, empty space. He was caught, trapped.

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