bewildered - Story 13087 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived, crisp and official, outlining the plans. It was all legal, perfectly above board. The tone was polite, distant. The letter mentioned compliance with local ordinances, and offered contact information for questions.

He read it twice, then a third time. He set it down, the paper rustling softly on the kitchen counter. A wave of disorientation washed over him. He felt as if his foundations were shifting beneath him.

He felt a sharp, unexpected pang of something he couldn't name. He wanted to scream.

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