perplexed - Story 104198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school newsletter arrived, and the first name to catch John's eye was: Mr. Evans. It was a name that evoked a peculiar sensation, an unexpected wave of something akin to stage fright. He remembered Mr. Evans, his drama teacher.

He put the paper down on the counter. He had been a shy, awkward teenager. The thought of his son, Ben, under Mr. Evans's tutelage sparked a mixture of apprehension and nostalgia.

He picked up the newspaper and began reading it again, his gaze lingering on the image of Mr. Evans's photo. He couldn’t quite place what was making him feel this way.

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