perplexed - Story 104384 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd been waiting for her outside the art gallery, excited to show her the new exhibit. But she was already inside, talking animatedly with a woman who wore his favorite scarf. The same scarf he’d given to *her* last week.

His vision blurred. He couldn't quite process the scene unfolding before him. He felt as if his foundations were crumbling beneath him, that the very ground was shifting.

The other woman laughed, then leaned in close to him, as if to kiss. The other woman he could only see the back of, turned towards them. He stumbled back, his breath catching in his throat. This wasn't real. It couldn't be.

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