perplexed - Story 104195 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Is it Ms. Davison again?” David asked, leaning against the doorway as his daughter, Chloe, rummaged through her backpack. Chloe looked up, her expression unreadable. “Yup.” A sense of disbelief washed over David.

Ms. Davison. He hadn’t thought of her in years. He remembered her as a kind, gentle woman, with a soothing voice and a love for storytelling. But it was just so strange.

He found himself fighting to recall specifics about her teaching style. Had it been effective? He felt a sense of protectiveness wash over him. Was Ms. Davison still the same? It was a strange thought to have. He wondered if he could drop by the classroom.

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