perplexed - Story 104440 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message flashed on her phone: "Have you seen the new menu at 'The Cozy Corner'? They’ve got your famous 'Honey Garlic Glazed Ribs'!" Her stomach lurched. Her ribs were her claim to fame, the dish that kept her tiny catering business afloat. Now, they were on the menu of a trendy new restaurant, and they weren't hers.

She stared at the message, her vision blurring slightly. She went to the window, the world looked different somehow. She was unable to function.

She picked up her phone and stared blankly at the screen. She felt a cold sensation in her chest. She needed to do something.

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