perplexed - Story 104820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The realization hit Chloe like a physical blow. “Dr. Jason Miller, Licensed Counselor.” Jason Miller? Her childhood nemesis? The one who made her life miserable? She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her.

She’d been having trouble sleeping, and her doctor recommended therapy. Now, here she was, about to confide in the very person who’d delighted in her every misery. A strange, chaotic mix of emotions swirled within her.

Her breath caught in her throat. She glanced at the door and took a shaky step forward, her entire body tensed and ready for anything.

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