perplexed - Story 104197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mr. Thompson?" I echoed, my voice sounding distant even to my own ears. My daughter, Maya, nodded enthusiastically, her eyes sparkling with excitement. "He's amazing, Mom! He makes math fun!" I wasn't so sure I agreed with her assessment of his abilities.

I felt a coldness creep into my limbs. I’d had Mr. Thompson in sixth grade. He had been a kind man, but I remembered math class as an endless slog. He had never made it fun.

I wondered how he had changed. I had changed. He couldn't be the same man I had known. But what if he was? I suddenly wanted to know more. I leaned in and asked, “What did you learn today?”

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