perplexed - Story 104897 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s words echoed in Maria’s mind, each syllable a puzzle. Her eyes darted from the grade to the comments, then back again, her face a mask of confusion. The score was a complete surprise. She bit her lip and then paced her small apartment. She'd always been a diligent student, always followed instructions to the letter. She felt as though she was adrift, untethered from reality. The air in the room felt heavy, and she reached for the window.

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