perplexed - Story 104193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, who's your teacher?" Mark asked, attempting a casual tone as his son, Leo, poured cereal. Leo, mid-bite, mumbled, "Mr. Henderson." Mark stopped. Mr. Henderson? The name registered with a jolt. *The* Mr. Henderson?

He felt a knot tighten in his chest. His old history teacher, famous for his dry wit and unwavering belief in memorization. Mark found himself involuntarily straightening his posture. He’d always considered Mr. Henderson a formidable presence, someone who held a certain power over him.

He was suddenly curious to learn what his son thought of Mr. Henderson. His son was so different than he was. He found himself wanting to ask a hundred questions.

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