perplexed - Story 104282 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah stared at the screen, her heart drumming a frantic rhythm against her ribs. *Chad Peterson wants to be friends.* Chad, the boy who used to steal her lunch money and call her "Four Eyes." She’d thought she’d buried that part of her life. She took a deep breath, the air feeling thin in her lungs.

She went to the kitchen and made a cup of chamomile tea, her hand shaking slightly as she measured the tea leaves. She hated chamomile. But it was supposed to calm you down. The steam clouded her glasses, mirroring the fogginess of her thoughts. She sat at the table, the tea untouched, and went back to the laptop. She leaned forward, squinting. His profile picture showed him holding a fishing rod, a rugged look.

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