perplexed - Story 104561 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation sat on Maya's kitchen counter, a bright pink square. Sarah's party. At the Fun Zone. Laser tag, pizza, the whole shebang. Maya picked it up again, turning it over in her hands. She chewed on her lip. She had been so sure Leo's backyard barbecue was a shoo-in. Now, this. Her stomach felt tight.

“Something wrong, hon?” her mom asked, leaning in. Maya jumped, dropping the invitation.

"No, Mom, just… deciding what to wear." She grabbed a juice box and quickly tore open the straw.

The air felt thick. She suddenly wished the floor would swallow her up. How could Sarah, her best friend, not have mentioned this?

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