perplexed - Story 104898 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“What did I do wrong?” I asked aloud, staring at the grade for my programming assignment. The words hung in the air, unanswered. The assignment had felt easy. I'd understood the logic, the code. Now, the code seemed to mock me. I stood up and began pacing, my steps quick and agitated, I replayed every line of the code in my head, searching for a flaw, a missed semicolon, anything. Nothing.

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