perplexed - Story 104708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the breakroom felt thick and heavy. Kevin stared at Jennifer, who was enthusiastically recounting tales of Camp Evergreen. His own Camp Evergreen experience was a collection of awkward moments, sunburn, and overwhelming loneliness.

A dull ache pulsed in his temples. He could feel his face flush. He struggled to reconcile the image of the carefree, laughing Jennifer with the image of the scared, insecure boy he'd been.

He felt a compelling urge to retreat, to disappear. He needed to be away from this. He took a sip of his coffee. The coffee tasted foul.

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