perplexed - Story 104699 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror, the lines around his eyes more pronounced than usual. He had always been ambitious, driven. The promotion was the next step, the logical progression. But now, with Anya in the running as well, the thought of the competition had him disoriented.

He splashed cold water on his face, hoping to clear his head. He felt a nagging worry he couldn’t place. He had a sudden urge to call his parents. He thought of his childhood and how life felt more simple back then. He knew he needed to pull himself together.

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