perplexed - Story 104566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the calendar, the red circles marking both his sister's planned picnic and the surprise birthday dinner his friends were organizing. The date stared back at him, mocking him with its simplicity. David felt a rush of heat creep up his neck. His hands balled into fists.

He leaned against the counter, the cool granite doing little to soothe his rising anxiety.

"This is not happening," he muttered under his breath, wanting to snap the calendar from the wall.

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