perplexed - Story 104907 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafeteria, usually filled with the clatter of plates and chattering students, was subdued. Emily picked at her food, unable to taste it. She looked at her friends, their faces mirroring her own shock. The words from the email still echoed in her head.

They’d made plans to graduate together, to move to the city, to start their careers. Now, those plans felt like castles built on sand. She felt a knot in her stomach, making it hard to swallow.

The world had shifted. Everything felt unfamiliar, as though she had been thrust onto a stage without a script. The bright fluorescent lights of the cafeteria suddenly seemed harsh.

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