bewildered - Story 13070 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived just as she was about to leave for a tutoring session. Maria crumpled the letter in her fist, her knuckles white. She looked around the small, cramped apartment, the walls closing in on her. The books, the notes, the preparations, all for naught.

She glanced at the clock. The student would be waiting. But she couldn't. She needed to breathe, to think. She sank onto the couch, her body feeling heavy, her mind a blank canvas. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the world.

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