perplexed - Story 104908 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Professor Anya Sharma walked through the campus, the familiar paths suddenly foreign. Students she passed gave her worried glances, their faces etched with disbelief. The air was charged with a palpable tension. She tried to smile, to offer some reassurance, but the words wouldn't come.

She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. She'd dedicated her life to academia. She loved this place. The thought of it closing down, of all the students she would no longer be able to teach, caused a hollow ache in her heart. She couldn't fathom it.

Her office, usually a haven, felt cold and empty. She slumped into her chair.

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