bewildered - Story 13079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A shiver ran down Alex's spine. He'd been looking forward to meeting "CodeCracker" at the local tech convention. He’d imagined someone who was into coding and into the community.

He saw her across the room, engrossed in a discussion with a panel of speakers. It was her, the person he had exchanged lines of code and dreams with. He felt a sudden, inexplicable sense of displacement.

He felt the blood drain from his face. This wasn't what he'd expected. The reality of the situation overwhelmed him. He had to sit down.

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