bewildered - Story 13096 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the overflowing refrigerator, stuffed with leftovers and various condiments he didn’t recognize. His mom, Deborah, had always been a good cook, but now, the sheer abundance of food, the constant offering of snacks, felt suffocating. He wasn’t used to this level of attention, this level of… caring.

“Are you hungry, sweetie?” she asked, hovering in the doorway. “I made your favorite, lasagna.”

He swallowed hard, the corners of his mouth dipping. He felt like he was being enveloped, smothered. “No, thanks, Mom,” he managed to get out. “I already ate.”

He wasn’t sure how to navigate this strange new reality.

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