perplexed - Story 104644 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The company had always felt like a family to him. David had poured a huge chunk of his life into this place. He'd witnessed weddings, births, even a divorce or two. Now, all that seemed… precarious. He reread the email, the words still refusing to fully register.

He walked to the window. The city spread out before him, a vast and indifferent expanse of concrete and glass. He felt like a small boat lost in a storm. He closed his eyes, his head starting to ache.

The afternoon sun, usually a source of comfort, felt like a spotlight, highlighting the vulnerability he felt. He sat down and put his head in his hands. What was going to happen to him, his team, his work?

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