perplexed - Story 104428 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Seriously?" muttered Ethan, staring at the invitation. He felt a sharp pang, a sort of… instability? He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands. He felt a tremor in his hand. He suddenly felt like he needed to do pushups.

He crumpled the invitation in his fist, then immediately regretted it and smoothed it out as best he could. He looked at the small, tight ball of paper. He felt like something was twisting inside of him. The past loomed.

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