perplexed - Story 104817 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The parking lot was almost deserted when Mark saw the sign. "Dr. Karen Bell, Psychotherapy." Karen Bell. The name sparked a familiar, unpleasant ache in his gut. He turned off the car engine, staring at the building.

He remembered her as a whirlwind of sharp words and quick tempers. The thought that she was now a therapist… it defied logic. Everything he thought he knew about people seemed to be unraveling.

He felt a knot form in his stomach. He wasn’t sure if he should go through with his appointment or not. He got out of the car, and headed for the doors.

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