perplexed - Story 104192 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael dropped his daughter, Emily, off at school, waving goodbye as she skipped towards the entrance. He glanced at the list of teachers posted by the door. Mrs. Peterson, Math. Mr. Davies, Science. And… Ms. Abernathy, English. A wave of dizziness washed over him. He knew that name! He remembered Ms. Abernathy, her perfectly coiffed hair and unwavering gaze.

He rubbed his temples, a headache blooming behind his eyes. He recalled her as a stickler for the rules. He began to imagine Emily under Ms. Abernathy's tutelage, a strange blend of past and present forming in his mind.

He pictured his daughter in the same classroom he had sat in years ago. The thought felt like a disruption of some natural order. He had to go back to his car.

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