perplexed - Story 104654 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A chill shot up Maya’s spine as she read the message: "Almost there! Make sure the surprise is ready." It was meant for her boss, Mr. Thompson. The recipient? Her ex-boyfriend, Mark. The color drained from her face.

Her breath hitched in her throat. She gripped the edge of her desk, her knuckles white. She looked at the date and time on the message; it was a mistake, a complete, utter mistake. She knew she should have checked her contacts before sending the texts.

She felt a wave of panic rising. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat in the sudden quiet of the office. She wanted to scream.

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