perplexed - Story 104668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He drummed his fingers on his knee, the rhythmic tapping a nervous counterpoint to the quiet. His eyes darted from the emergency phone to the control panel, then back again. He felt an intense internal restlessness.

"This is just… unbelievable," he said, his voice tight. He turned to face Jessica, who was trying to read a crumpled receipt. She wasn’t even fazed.

He felt a deep sense of irritation bubbling up inside him. He didn’t know how much longer he could stay still. His stomach churned. Why wasn't anyone coming?

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