perplexed - Story 104892 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Impossible," Mateo muttered, his voice barely audible. He stared at the printout, the failing grade for his calculus exam mocking him. He reread the professor's comments, a cascade of criticisms that made his face flush. He knew the material. He'd aced every practice problem, worked through the supplemental exercises. His palms were slick with sweat. He pressed his knuckles against his forehead, searching for answers that weren’t there.

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