perplexed - Story 104992 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam squinted at the screen, the cursor blinking mockingly on the webpage. He reread the title: "From Angst to Acceptance: A Journey Through Self-Doubt." His essay. *His* deeply personal exploration of his struggles with his father. Now, it was a case study on a university website. He felt a coldness spread from his chest, making him shiver.

He leaned back in his chair, trying to process the information. They’d never asked. He'd never been informed. Had anyone even considered his feelings?

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he was doing. The air in his tiny apartment felt suddenly thick, hard to breathe. He wanted to reach out, scream at someone, anyone, to acknowledge the weight of this bizarre revelation.

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