bewildered - Story 13047 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the smell that got to her first. The acrid tang of fresh paint and varnish, mingling with the dust of demolition. She couldn't breathe properly. The air inside her own house felt thick and heavy, like a shroud.

She’d started making excuses to stay inside, but it felt worse. She would watch the construction crews from her window, a strange tension building in her shoulders. She felt disconnected.

She tried to phone her friend but found herself staring at the phone, unable to dial.

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