perplexed - Story 104823 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The code scrolled across the screen, line after line of familiar syntax. Sarah felt a prickling sensation on the back of her neck. This couldn't be right. She’d been coding the AI assistant for months, isolating herself in her home office, fueled by instant noodles and a burning passion. The client, a notoriously secretive tech mogul, had been thrilled with her progress. Now, staring at a colleague’s uploaded files, she felt a sinking feeling in her stomach. Why did it match her work so perfectly? She leaned back in her chair, the sudden weight of confusion pressing down on her.

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