perplexed - Story 104177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation read "Gala for Philanthropists." He had always claimed to work in the non-profit sector. It was supposed to be a night of champagne and meaningful connections. Instead, she found herself in a cramped community center. A poorly lit room. He looked nervous. He was on the sound board. A volunteer. A sense of bewilderment washed over her.

“Great to have you here, Jess!” he said. Jess felt her face getting warmer.

She watched him fiddle with the microphone, his face tight.

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