perplexed - Story 104422 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of… what was that, exactly? Disquiet? Rolled over Marcus as he unfolded the glossy invitation. He ran a hand through his already tousled hair, a nervous habit he'd developed in high school and never quite shaken. The picture of the high school gymnasium – where he'd spent countless hours shooting hoops and avoiding eye contact with his crush, Sarah – seemed to mock him.

He reread the details. Date, time, location. Then he looked at himself in the reflection of his phone screen, his gaze lingering on the lines that had deepened around his eyes. He felt a faint prickling on his skin, a sense of… unease? He wasn’t sure.

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