perplexed - Story 104627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh, *great*,” Mark muttered, his voice barely audible. He'd just received a notification that Mr. Olsen, his drama teacher, was now following his personal, private account on Instagram. A flush crept up his neck and cheeks. He couldn't believe it.

He scrambled to analyze his posts. Mostly goofy selfies, photos with his friends, and some attempts at amateur photography. Nothing particularly embarrassing, but the idea of Mr. Olsen seeing his unfiltered life felt… wrong. He felt a weird sensation, like a fish out of water.

He imagined him watching his stories, critiquing his facial expressions, or worse, seeing the posts where he vented about the play. He had a sudden impulse to change his account name.

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