perplexed - Story 104657 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The words on the screen blurred, a jumble of letters and intentions. "Drinks later? Can't wait to hear all about it." The message had been sent to his accountant, Mr. Davies. He had meant to text his friend, Liam. He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands.

He reread the message, his jaw clenching. He felt a knot tighten in his stomach. He wasn’t sure how to explain it. He felt trapped. He considered his options, all of which seemed disastrous.

He wished he could rewind time, erase the mistake. The world around him seemed to tilt slightly, adding to his disorientation.

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