perplexed - Story 104444 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It started with a misplaced coffee stain. Then, a slightly rearranged bookmark in her favorite book. Now, Chloe found her journal, usually buried under a pile of clothes in her closet, resting openly on her desk, its cover facing up. She stood frozen in the doorway of her dorm room, unable to move.

Her roommate, Jessica, was meticulously organizing her makeup on the desk. Jessica’s eyes flicked over to Chloe, a flicker of something unreadable in them before she smiled.

"Oh, hey! Did you need something?" Jessica asked casually, but there was a strange tightness to her voice.

Chloe mumbled something about looking for a pen, her heart hammering in her chest. She wanted to bolt, to run away and hide.

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