perplexed - Story 104519 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the indoor pool was punctuated only by the gentle splashing of water. Coach Davis stared at the names on the clipboard. He'd followed the criteria, the times, the performances. He felt out of sorts.

He thought of Maya, a swimmer with an indomitable spirit. She would swim for hours, pushing herself to the limit. She supported everyone on the team. The image of her face, crestfallen, was now burned in his mind.

He closed his eyes, his chest constricting. He could hear her voice in his head. He looked up, and he saw Maya standing at the end of the pool, her face blank. He started walking.

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