perplexed - Story 104390 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shared password to the streaming service, the same favorite movie playing, the same popcorn tub. His stomach lurched. The woman next to him, laughing at the exact same jokes, looked strangely familiar. It was the same laughter, the same mannerisms, the same…everything. The movie ended and he felt like he had been kicked in the gut.

He sat there, utterly immobile. A powerful sense of displacement washed over him. His head throbbed. He looked at the woman beside him, and the world seemed to tilt on its axis.

He opened his mouth to speak, but no words came out. His mind was blank. All he could do was stare.

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