bewildered - Story 13038 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It began with a subtle shift in perspective. Sarah noticed details about her life appearing on social media, things only she and her closest friends knew. The unsettling feeling grew stronger. Then, a friend sent her a link to a book. She clicked it and found it was a biography of her, "Sarah's Story."

She looked at the book, her heart beating erratically in her chest. She scrolled through the online preview. It described her first crush, her secret dreams, everything. She felt invaded, exposed.

She didn't know how to react, what to feel. She felt the ground beneath her shift. She felt the need to shut out the world.

She closed her laptop, went into the bathroom, and stared at her reflection.

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