perplexed - Story 104710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar tap of a pen against the desk suddenly grated on him. He looked up to see Chloe, his new coworker, beaming. "Camp Skyview was the best!" she exclaimed. He felt the muscles in his jaw clench.

His own experience at Skyview was a painful one, a summer defined by social awkwardness and a crushing sense of inadequacy. He felt a knot tighten in his stomach. He wasn’t sure how to respond, but he knew he couldn’t let this go.

He swallowed hard. He struggled to assemble a sentence, but his mouth seemed dry. The room felt smaller. He couldn’t see this.

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