perplexed - Story 104994 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark stopped mid-bite of his sandwich, his gaze locked on the magazine article. He recognized the opening sentence immediately. It was *his* essay, the one where he detailed his love for vintage motorcycles. The accompanying photograph was a picture of him, grinning, holding his dad's old Harley. A bead of sweat trickled down his temple.

He felt a tightness in his throat, making swallowing difficult. Why? Why choose his? Of all the essays, why his? He felt exposed, as if everyone in the restaurant was staring at him. He could feel his face burning.

He abruptly stood up, pushing his half-eaten lunch away. He needed to get out. He needed to understand this baffling turn of events.

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