perplexed - Story 104996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David found himself staring at the online course material. The essay, the one about his complicated relationship with his sister, was displayed prominently. The title: "The Power of Sibling Rivalry." He felt a strange tingling sensation, beginning at the tips of his fingers and spreading rapidly.

He leaned forward, squinting at the words. He felt an urge to scroll up and down, as if somehow the digital display might change and remove this. A knot tightened in his gut.

He clicked the "Contact Us" tab, his hands shaking slightly as he started to type a message. What did this even mean?

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