perplexed - Story 104905 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit Sarah as she was waiting in line at the campus bookstore. She checked her phone and felt her breath catch. The line blurred with all of the other patrons. The books she wanted to buy felt like heavy anchors in her hands. She couldn't focus on picking up a novel or a textbook, and instead stared straight ahead.

Her graduation was in a few months. She’d spent countless hours studying, working toward her degree. Now, she felt like the floor had dropped out from under her feet. Her carefully laid plans crumbled. This wasn't how it was supposed to go. She hadn't even finished packing her dorm room!

She left the store without buying anything, the weight of the news pressing down on her shoulders, the store becoming blurry and out of focus.

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