perplexed - Story 104695 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, highlighting the dust motes dancing in the air. Sarah couldn’t focus on her screen, the words on the documents blurring into meaningless shapes. The competition with her coworker, Michael, had thrown her off-kilter.

She tapped her pen against her teeth. She found herself watching Michael out of the corner of her eye, trying to decipher his expression, his routine. Was he working harder? Was he more prepared? She took a steadying breath. "This is ridiculous," she muttered under her breath.

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