bewildered - Story 13060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ring sat within the display case, gleaming with a deceptive sparkle that felt like a mocking laugh. It was the ring. Her grandmother’s, the one that had vanished after her funeral. A wave of nausea washed over her.

She gripped the edge of the counter, her knuckles white. Her mind raced, a jumbled mess of fragmented memories and impossible scenarios. The shop, with its low ceilings and crowded aisles, seemed to press in on her, suffocating her.

She felt a tear trickle down her cheek. It didn't make sense. Nothing made sense.

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