perplexed - Story 104270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd visualized the trophy, the victory speech. Now, the weight of the rejection seemed to crush him. He stood in the lobby, the cold tile floor a stark contrast to the heat of his disappointment. He was meant to be on the roster.

His mind raced, a chaotic jumble of thoughts and anxieties. He felt a coldness spread through his limbs. The other players were streaming out, their faces filled with smiles, their energy radiating. He was alone.

He tried to force a smile, but it felt wooden, unnatural. The door to the gym seemed to beckon him out, away from the scene of his failure.

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