perplexed - Story 104516 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Come in, please,” Coach Lee said, his voice sounding oddly formal in the sterile office. He watched as the player, Maria, entered, her face a mask of polite anticipation. His hands felt clammy. He’d spent the morning re-reading his notes, searching for any alternative, any loophole. There was none.

He tried to focus, but all he saw was Maria's dedication, her unwavering commitment to the team. He thought of her parents, always supporting her from the sidelines. He knew they'd be heartbroken.

He gestured to a chair, his own words catching in his throat. He saw the doubt cloud her eyes as she settled into the chair.

He opened his mouth to speak, but the words felt like lead in his mouth.

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