perplexed - Story 104622 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam was in the middle of a particularly boring history lesson when the notification popped up: "Mr. Davies started following you." He froze. The droning voice of Mr. Davies, discussing the French Revolution, faded into background noise. His head buzzed. He hadn't even tagged him in the photo of the concert last weekend, the one he was sure Mr. Davies would *hate*.

He surreptitiously glanced across the room, at the back of Mr. Davies’ head, his thick, graying hair. He saw him scribbling on the whiteboard. Liam's stomach felt like a knot. He wondered if he should delete the picture, just in case. What if Mr. Davies thought he was being disrespectful? Or, worse, what if he thought he was cool? He couldn't decide which outcome was more mortifying.

The bell rang, jolting him. He gathered his things with unusual haste, avoiding eye contact with anyone. He had to get out of there.

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