perplexed - Story 104995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The university bookstore seemed to spin as Olivia scanned the shelves. Finally, she found it: a slim volume titled “The Art of the College Essay.” She flipped it open, and her breath hitched. Her essay about her volunteer work at the animal shelter. “Demonstrating Compassion: A Case Study.” Her stomach lurched.

She scanned the paragraph, her eyes darting across the familiar words. She felt a wave of nausea, her hands growing clammy. It felt as if someone had pried open a private diary and was now displaying it for the world to see.

Her chest constricted, making each breath a conscious effort. She slammed the book shut, the sound echoing unnaturally loud in the quiet store. A sudden, potent need to escape flooded her.

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