perplexed - Story 104200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Your teacher is Ms. Olsen, right?" I asked my daughter, Grace, as we walked home from the school open house. Grace nodded, her face lit up. "Yeah! She’s really nice!" I stopped walking. Ms. Olsen. My mind spun.

The name brought me back to my own adolescence, to a time of awkwardness and self-doubt. She had always been kind, but a certain sense of caution had always existed in her classes. My palms were suddenly sweating.

I couldn’t help but wonder if Grace’s experience with Ms. Olsen would be anything like mine. I knew it wouldn't be the same. I hoped it wouldn’t be.

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