perplexed - Story 104159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So…ready for this?" Liam’s voice was too jovial, too bright. Alex, his friend, stared at the door. He didn't answer. He felt a coldness creeping up his spine.

They had been teammates on the soccer field, classmates, companions in all things. Now, they were adversaries, vying for the same prize. It felt wrong, unnatural. He shifted uncomfortably, the silence stretching between them.

He suddenly realized he couldn’t meet Liam’s eyes. He felt a pang of something sharp and unfamiliar, a sudden, unfamiliar edge to his usual feeling of camaraderie.

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