perplexed - Story 104128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of stale coffee and processed food filled the air. Clara stared at the departure board, her fingers tracing the faded lettering. The book signing! Her first book signing, a milestone. Now, it would be a memory.

She felt a pressure building behind her eyes, a sensation like a dam about to burst. She took a deep breath, trying to control the tremor in her hands. She thought of her publisher, the eager fans, the sense of accomplishment, all now dissolving.

She tried to distract herself by people-watching, but the faces around her blurred, each one a stranger moving in a dimension she could no longer access. She felt detached, adrift.

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