perplexed - Story 104616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you alright, dear?” Her aunt’s voice, a gentle inquiry, sliced through the general hubbub. She managed a weak smile. "Fine, just…thinking." She was standing in the doorway, observing the scene. Her parents were the center of attention, surrounded by well-wishers. A rush of disorientation flooded her.

She had rehearsed her speech, but the words felt hollow now. She clutched her handbag tightly. The reality of the moment was completely different from what she had imagined. Each face she saw was a question, an expectation. She felt a compelling urge to disappear.

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