perplexed - Story 104276 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you're saying I'm moving to the Shipping and Receiving department?" Sarah asked, her voice cracking slightly. She gripped the edge of her desk, her knuckles turning white. She'd always been a designer. Every pixel, every font, every color choice was carefully considered. Now, boxes and packing tape and heavy lifting.

She couldn't shake the feeling of being in a dream. The office around her seemed to warp and shift. The familiar artwork on the walls now seemed to mock her. She felt a profound sense of disorientation, as though her world had been upended.

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