perplexed - Story 104194 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mom, can we get that extra-large pack of crayons?" Lily chirped, pulling at her mother's sleeve as they browsed the school supply aisle. "Mrs. Harrison wants us to be prepared!" Her mother, Carol, froze. Mrs. Harrison. The name struck her like a lightning bolt. Her former fourth-grade teacher.

Carol felt a jolt of alarm. She remembered Mrs. Harrison as a woman of extreme habits, with a penchant for strictness. She had a fondness for star charts and neat handwriting. Her own memories of those years were mixed.

She started looking around the store as if searching for an escape. The very idea of Lily experiencing Mrs. Harrison's classroom was unsettling, a strange convergence of timelines. She tried to smile at Lily.

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