perplexed - Story 104570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The confetti from the invitation to a skating party felt as if it was mocking Ethan. He read the details again and again, each time feeling more disjointed. It was the same day as the hiking trip he had already planned. He was at a loss.

Ethan felt a strange and hollow feeling within his chest. He felt as though the floor beneath his feet had been removed.

Ethan let out a long sigh as he began to pace the floor.

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