perplexed - Story 104620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The venue was decorated with balloons and streamers, a cheerful scene that clashed violently with the turmoil inside him. She was supposed to speak, but the words evaded her. She watched her mother laugh with her friends. It was difficult to reconcile that image with the task at hand.

She excused herself and went to the restroom, splashing water on her face. Her reflection stared back at her, a stranger in a dress. She took a deep breath. This was harder than she'd expected. She hated that she'd accepted.

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