perplexed - Story 105000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old box of college application materials, shoved into the back of the closet, felt like a pressure point. Liam had been rummaging through it, seeking to prove his current writing style to a colleague. He unearthed the application essay. He blinked, slowly processing the title printed next to it, “Demonstrating Cultural Awareness Through Storytelling." It was published. The article contained his application essay.

He felt a sudden, urgent need to understand the situation. His hands trembled as he opened his laptop and began searching, hoping to uncover some explanation for this unusual circumstance. He felt a deep, disquieting unrest. He scrolled through the web-pages, his mind racing.

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