perplexed - Story 104618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, a familiar smell, didn't soothe her. She was supposed to deliver a toast. She’d envisioned this moment, but the reality was far more complicated than she had anticipated. She wandered the garden, looking for a place to sit, to think, to collect her thoughts. The flowers, in their vibrant hues, seemed to taunt her.

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She could feel the pressure in her chest. She needed to find the words. Words that would express her gratitude, her love, her…what was it that she was supposed to say?

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