perplexed - Story 104659 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the phone. "Meet me at the usual spot. Don't be late. XOXO." The recipient? His grandmother. He’d meant to text his…well, he wasn’t sure who he *meant* to text. He felt a deep sense of unease.

He felt a chill, despite the summer heat. He replayed the message in his mind, and cringed. He imagined his grandmother's face, her furrowed brow, and the ensuing lecture.

He sat there, utterly paralyzed. He felt a growing sense of impending doom, a feeling that something awful was about to happen. He felt an intense desire to bury the phone in the sand and walk away.

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