perplexed - Story 104426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David frowned at the invitation, his brow furrowed. It was a beautiful, embossed affair, and the mere sight of it caused a weird sort of tightening in his chest. He felt… unbalanced. A quick glance at the clock told him he had a meeting in five minutes, and he was suddenly desperate to leave his desk.

He tapped the invitation lightly against his desk. He hadn't given much thought to his high school years in ages. He felt a weird, sinking sensation. Should he go? Could he? He leaned back in his chair, a small, tight smile playing on his lips.

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