bewildered - Story 13048 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ringing phone startled her. It was Mrs. Miller, from next door. "I just wanted to make sure everything's alright," her neighbor said, her voice strained. "The noise must be awful."

"Yes," she replied, her voice sounding detached. "It is." The phone felt heavy in her hand, the conversation a chore.

She hung up, then sat and just stared at the wall. The world seemed to be turning upside down. Everything she thought she understood felt like it was breaking apart. The constant sound from next door was the only thing she understood and it made her heart beat faster.

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