perplexed - Story 104619 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture he often made when he was… troubled. He stared at the blank invitation. It had been sitting on his desk for weeks. Now, the party was tomorrow. He was asked to say a few words. But what words?

He opened the document on his computer. The blinking cursor taunted him. He felt trapped. He started typing. He deleted the words. He started again. He deleted them again. He stood up and paced his living room. The clock ticked on relentlessly.

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