bewildered - Story 13018 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the courtroom felt thick with unspoken tension. Her brother, a lifelong atheist, stood before her, his face composed, announcing his conversion to Mormonism. Her jaw tightened, a muscle in her cheek beginning to twitch.

She shifted in her seat, feeling the starched fabric of her suit scratch against her skin. The legal jargon of the hearing blurred around her. The familiar faces of the lawyers and witnesses seemed to morph into distorted shapes.

She found herself gripping her hands together in her lap, knuckles white. She looked at her brother, his face now illuminated with a strange glow.

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