bewildered - Story 13088 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She found herself walking, aimlessly, along the property line, touching the rough wood of the unfinished fence. It felt alien, cold. A knot formed in her stomach.

She had always enjoyed the open space, the sense of connection to her neighbors. Now, a barrier. A physical manifestation of… what? She couldn't say.

Her breath hitched in her chest. She needed to sit down. The world seemed to tilt on its axis.

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