bewildered - Story 13017 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a punch to the gut. Her teenage daughter, Chloe, had decided to become a Scientologist. The words, delivered with a casual shrug in the brightly lit kitchen, felt like a betrayal. Laura's hands instinctively went to her chest, her breath catching in her throat.

She watched Chloe methodically unload the dishwasher, her usual cheerful chatter replaced with an eerie calm. Laura felt a tremor of fear, a prickly sensation spreading through her limbs.

"But... your school, your friends?" Laura stammered, the questions feeling inadequate to contain the turmoil within. Chloe just shrugged again and started organizing the cutlery.

Emotion: bewildered

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion

PC1 (Valence): -1.87 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.48

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion bewildered. 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 bewildered stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the bewildered emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the bewildered vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`будто`	0.300
`ness`	0.255
`像是`	0.241
`worse`	0.231
`Worse`	0.219

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.373
`மகி`	-0.229
`happy`	-0.226
`ecstatic`	-0.226
`K`	-0.219