perplexed - Story 104320 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Let's order Chinese tonight," said James, scrolling through his phone. He looked at Liam, who was already sitting at the table, a book open in front of him.

"Sure," Liam replied, without looking up. James saw the book was filled with characters. He squinted at it, his stomach twisting into a knot.

It was Mandarin. James felt a distinct lack of balance. He felt disoriented. He opened his mouth to say something, but no sound came out. Instead, he just stared at Liam, utterly and completely at sea.

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