perplexed - Story 104918 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“It's just a formality,” Ms. Chen said, her smile bright and too wide. He found himself picking at a piece of lint on his jacket. He didn't like where this was going. The big, old oak provided shelter to a great many birds, birds he loved to watch.

He felt a sudden heat rise in his cheeks. He looked at the tree, its leaves a vibrant green. He felt a wave of… something akin to panic… wash over him. His throat felt dry.

He watched Ms. Chen closely, trying to decipher her intentions. He wished, suddenly, that he could just disappear.

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