perplexed - Story 104539 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I blinked, the email shimmering before my eyes. The scholarship, the lifeline that kept me afloat, was given to someone else. The room began to spin. My carefully arranged life suddenly felt like a house of cards. My heart hammered against my ribs.

I stared at the screen, unable to process the words. I walked over to the window. The campus, usually a place of hope, now felt like a prison. My head throbbed. I felt a confusing internal battle raging within me.

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