perplexed - Story 104535 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to spin as Olivia digested the information. The financial aid office had made an error. Her scholarship was, in fact, not hers. The sunny day outside her window mocked her. She let out a shaky sigh. Why now? Why after all the late nights, the sacrifices, the relentless striving?

She felt a hollowness in her chest, a void opening up. She rose, walked over to the window and stared at the campus, usually a haven of her dreams. Now, it was a landscape of looming uncertainty. Her jaw clenched. She felt a growing confusion.

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