perplexed - Story 104868 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The oversized teddy bear was delivered to Mr. Williams' classroom. He stood frozen, staring at it. It was huge, almost as tall as him, and dressed in a miniature graduation gown. The card read, "Thank you, Mr. Williams." The name at the bottom was "Jessica."

Jessica had been a struggling student. He’d worked with her tirelessly, and she had barely passed. He had assumed she didn't like him. He looked around at the vacant desks, the quiet classroom.

He circled the bear, avoiding eye contact. He felt a strange lightness in his head, a disconnect. What was the purpose of this display?

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