perplexed - Story 104666 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the call button, his finger hovering over it. He’d pressed it a dozen times, each time hoping for a response, and each time met with only silence. His jaw clenched.

The small, confined space felt like a pressure cooker. He paced, restless energy vibrating through him. He couldn’t seem to stand still. He glanced at Emily, who was picking at her fingernails.

“Everything’s fine,” he announced, his voice sounding hollow, even to his own ears. He didn't believe it. He felt trapped.

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