perplexed - Story 104706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael found himself fiddling with his pen, clicking it repeatedly, the sound echoing in the otherwise quiet office. "So, Pine Ridge, huh?" he asked, trying to sound casual, but the words came out strained. Sarah, sitting opposite him, nodded, her expression open and friendly. "Yeah, loved it. Made some lifelong friends."

He felt the blood drain from his face. Pine Ridge. It had been his first and last attempt at fitting in, a summer filled with awkward silences and failed attempts at building a campfire. He couldn’t process this.

The desk seemed to shrink, the walls closing in. He stared at Sarah. She seemed so… normal. It made no sense.

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