perplexed - Story 104166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, this is just great,” I mumbled to myself. I took a large gulp of wine, hoping to wash away the sudden tension that had gripped me. Seeing him here was not part of the plan. I hadn't prepared for this. I'd convinced myself I was doing well.

I felt a sharp stab of…something…in my chest. Anger? Sadness? Regret? I couldn't tell. My chest felt tight, constricted. The champagne flutes clinked, the music played, and I felt a million miles away, lost in a sea of confused emotions.

He was talking to someone, laughing. A coldness settled in my stomach. The wedding, with all its vibrant colors and happy faces, suddenly felt suffocating. I needed air. I needed to get away. The world seemed tilted on its axis.

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