perplexed - Story 104828 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“But…how?” Liam muttered, his voice barely a whisper. The melody was his. He had composed the symphony over months, spending sleepless nights and endless hours, pouring his soul into every note. Yet, the recording played on the radio, was his music - a near-perfect copy. He sank back into his chair, a coldness spreading through him. He gripped the arms of the chair so hard his knuckles turned white. This was a nightmare.

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