bewildered - Story 13049 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He began to avoid his own backyard, which was usually his sanctuary. The incessant hammering and the shouts of the construction workers shattered the peace. He felt a constant low-level anxiety, a tightness in his chest. He didn't know why.

He tried to focus on his work, but his mind kept wandering. Every other thought was punctuated by the rhythmic pounding, the grinding of the saw, the screech of metal on metal. He found himself pacing.

He began to question his own reality.

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