perplexed - Story 104157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waiting room seemed to shrink with every passing minute. Jessica sat across from him, her usual vibrant energy dimmed. Ethan noticed her tapping her foot, a rhythmic beat that matched the frantic thumping in his chest.

The air felt thick, charged with an invisible tension. He looked at her, searching for some sign, some clue. He didn’t know what to say. Should he wish her luck? Tell her he believed in her? Pretend this wasn't happening?

He shifted in his chair, the plastic cold against his back. He had a sudden urge to run, to escape the suffocating pressure of the situation. He felt a deep sense of trepidation.

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