perplexed - Story 104387 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The woman across from her had just ordered the same dish she had, at the exact same time. The restaurant was the same, the lighting was the same, and the way the other woman’s hair shimmered in the candlelight reminded her of him. She felt disconnected from the world.

Her palms began to sweat. A tremor ran through her body. She reached for her water glass, her hand shaking.

"He told me this was our special place," the other woman was saying, her voice laced with amusement. A terrible sensation of being adrift filled her. It felt like all the anchors had snapped.

She closed her eyes, trying to regain control.

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