perplexed - Story 104455 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No matches found," the words printed on the paper in front of her. A wave of dizziness washed over her. She gripped the edge of the table, her knuckles turning white. The room swam, the sunlight glaring.

Her breath came in ragged gasps. Her eyes flitted around the room, landing on a picture of her as a little girl, laughing on her dad's shoulders. The memory, usually a source of warmth, now felt like a cruel joke.

She felt a sudden urge to scream, to lash out, to break something. She bit down on her lip, forcing herself to stay calm. The weight of this new information pressed down on her, crushing her. She needed to get out, to breathe, to find something to hold onto.

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