perplexed - Story 104445 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the dorm room felt thick, heavy. David felt a wave of cold wash over him as he saw it: his journal, propped open on his roommate, Ethan's, desk. He'd hidden it so well, or so he thought. He felt his face flush.

Ethan was on his computer, seemingly oblivious. David cleared his throat. The sound echoed in the sudden silence.

"Hey, Ethan," he began, his voice raspy. "Did you… see my journal earlier?"

Ethan turned, a flicker of something evasive in his eyes. "Oh, yeah. I saw it. Just… laying there." He shrugged.

David stood rooted to the spot, his mind racing, trying to make sense of the situation. He felt a strange combination of anger and shame.

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