perplexed - Story 104816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Jessica slammed the file folder closed, the sound echoing in the otherwise silent office. The last client's file confirmed her fear. Dr. Daniel Richards. It couldn’t be. Not the same Daniel Richards who had delighted in humiliating her in their high school science class.

She ran a hand through her hair, feeling a flush creep up her neck. He had always seemed so… cruel. The thought of pouring her heart out to him, of being vulnerable in front of him, was absolutely mortifying.

She looked at her calendar. She had a scheduled meeting with him tomorrow. What was she supposed to do now? Cancel? Show up and pretend everything was fine? She groaned, leaning back in her chair.

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